Let's take a look at Acumen Media's seven-day breakdown of the week's biggest stories in South African media.
Leading this week's atrocious news was convicted child rapist, Nicholas Ninow, who received his sentencing for raping a seven-year-old girl at a local Dros restaurant. The child rape case received 20,000 results this week and excess of 62,000 engagements; negative sentiment was 82% with a net negative sentiment of 98%.
Meanwhile, still keeping us in the dark is 'power' utility Eskom - which reintroduced the nation to load shedding, this week. While fuming over the load shedding matter, South Africans also took to Twitter to turn the recent fire at Multichoice into a meme-filled frenzy.
It's lit there by #Multichoice offices.
- SIMON (@tp_sithole) 15 October 2019
Literally. It's on fire pic.twitter.com/QL5EI4HcAh
Even though EWN reporter Barry Batemen was suspended for one month without pay for calling Economic Freedom Fighters leader, Julius Malema, the infamous Capetonian p-word (Peter Oliver eats sweets), crowdfunding efforts have ensured that he will get paid. Former eThekwini Mayor, Zandile Gumede, has accused the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) of coming after because she's a woman.
Despite appearing in court, former president Jacob Zuma's corruption trial has been postponed to February next year.
And now for some good news. Putting South Africa in an excellent light was two of the country's most successful exports - Trevor Noah and Black Coffee. The comedian interviewed the internationally-renowned DJ on The Daily Show, this week.
And the Springboks are still in good form at the 2019 Rugby World Cup. They face hosts Japan on Sunday; let's hope it's not a repeat of that last upset against the Cherry Blossoms.
Making Africa proud, Kenyan long-distance runner Eliud Kipchoge became the first person to complete a marathon under the two-hour mark at the recent INEOS 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria.
