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Phumzile Van Damme

@zilevandamme · 🇿🇦🇳🇴 · joined 04 Sep 2009

Co-Founder. Tech & Society. Geopolitics. @Harvard Tech & Human Rights Fellow. @WEF Global Future Council. INFJ. Virago. Ex-MP.

195 297Followers
3 303Following
149 160Posts total
316.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views37 220this account5 994median for 100K–1M
Reach, %19.06%this account2.51%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %3.05%this account1.40%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post37 2205 9946.21×
Reach (views ÷ followers)19.06%2.51%7.59×
Engagement rate3.05%1.40%2.18×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

68.5K7 May
75.7K2 Sep
16.3K
58.2K3 Sep
75.6K
14.1K
8K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.45%7 May
0.29%2 Sep
5.47%
4.42%3 Sep
1.39%
1.68%
4.94%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes57.0%4 147 in total
Reposts25.6%1 861 in total
Replies3.6%262 in total
Quotes1.2%85 in total
Bookmarks12.6%915 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Another of Project Coast’s crimes, and its mastermind, Wouter Basson. There are so many. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Project Coast used recreational drugs in efforts to fracture families, deepen social decay, chemically pacify rising political rebellion and destabilise 8K views · 241 likes · 145 reposts · 6 replies 03 Sep 2026 Rather than bask in the accolades of people homesick for apartheid in the @afriforum Afriforum Theatre tomorrow,  Dr Wouter Basson should share what he knows about what happened to the apartheid engineered street drug enterprises. Cape Town is considered South Africa’s gang 14.1K views · 143 likes · 62 reposts · 28 replies 03 Sep 2026 First of my bloodline to witness lap-top journalism. 75.6K views · 798 likes · 195 reposts · 48 replies 03 Sep 2026 “Controversial.” “Military Doctor.” Are you out of your mind? He was the head of the apartheid government’s chemical and biological warfare programme, Project Coast. One of its aims was reducing Black population growth, so insidious he investigated a biological agent intended 58.2K views · 1.5K likes · 975 reposts · 45 replies 03 Sep 2026 Imagine inviting Josef Mengele for his “personal account” on the use of chemical warfare in Nazi Germany. Wild. No one ever accuse South Africa of not having full freedom of speech. 16.3K views · 643 likes · 231 reposts · 15 replies 02 Sep 2026 Sold out: AfriForum’s theatre seats fill up for Dr Death’s toxic tell-all https://t.co/vRrG112YK6 75.7K views · 46 likes · 32 reposts · 108 replies 02 Sep 2026 📍🫶🏾😂 https://t.co/5z134F4JcI 68.5K views · 749 likes · 221 reposts · 12 replies 07 May 2026

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