South African Government engagement report
@GovernmentZA - 872K followers on X
Measured over 96 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 872K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 96 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 2.6K times each, and 0.17% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.304% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 96 posts sampled, 92% carry an image or video and 34% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.9K interactions, about 1463x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #govzaupdates, #justicefikilemokgohloa, #servicedeliveryza.
Measured over 96 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026. Recurring tags: #govzaupdates, #justicefikilemokgohloa, #servicedeliveryza.
Compared with accounts its own size
South African Government's engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 14% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.001%, South African Government sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 29, 20261463x their median
It’s all over in Cape Town as the Boks pull one back in #RugbysGreatestRivalry 🇿🇦 #Springboks #ForeverGreenForeverGold https://t.co/dgK2xL43NY
- Aug 28, 2026240x their median
[📹 Happening Now] The Employer who is responsible for the construction site as the main contractor receiving an explanation of the Immigration Act to make him understand the charges being imposed on him. @GovernmentZA #YaziniFriday #GovtUpdateZA #ServiceDelivery #WomensMonth2026
- Aug 29, 202640x their median
Obituary of the late Justice Fikile Eunice Mokgohloa #JusticeFikileMokgohloa #GovZAUpdates https://t.co/us4nR8aOtW
- Aug 27, 202616x their median
📸His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa holds a bilateral meeting with His Excellency President Salva Kiir Mayardit of the Republic of South Sudan at Mahlamba Ndlopfu, his official residence in Tshwane, Gauteng. President Salva Kiir Mayardit is on a working visit in the Republic of South Africa from 23-31August 2026. The bilateral meeting provides an opportunity for the Heads of State to engage on economic cooperation, institutional development, and capacity building between the two nations. The discussions will further discuss the preparations for the South Sudanese elections. Formal diplomatic relations between both countries were established in September 2012, while bilateral cooperation is guided by the General Cooperation Agreement (GCA) signed in 2013. South Africa has played a significant role in supporting South Sudan's peace and state-building efforts, including through mediation initiatives, the African Union High-Level Ad Hoc Committee on South Sudan (C5), the Arusha peace process, and the appointment of Deputy President Paul Mashatile as Special Envoy to South Sudan. #SouthSudanInSA 🇸🇸🇿🇦 #BetterAfricaBetterWorld 🌍 #GovZAUpdates
- Aug 22, 202613x their median
Try you did! We will klap them next match! 🇿🇦 #Springboks #AllBlacks #GovZAUpdates #RugbysGreatestRivalry https://t.co/CyTwe4VVoM
- Aug 28, 202611x their median
[🎥 Happening Now] at Sunninghill leading a Multidisciplinary High Impact Blitz Inspections joined by the Executive Mayor of the City of Joburg, Cllr @DadaMorero and MMC for Development Planning, Cllr @Eunice_Mgcina targeting the construction sector in the @CityofJoburgZA Municipality. The operation uncovered high levels of none compliance with some Labour Laws namely; Unemployment Insurance Fund Act, National Minimum Wage Act, COIDA and Occupational Health and Safety Act and we further detained at least 80 illegal immigrants and their employers for breaching the Immigration Act of the Republic of South Africa. @GovernmentZA #YaziniFriday #GovtUpdateZA #ServiceDelivery #WomensMonth2026
- Aug 29, 202611x their median
PICS| Today mourners gathers to honour the life and legacy of Justice Fikile Eunice Mokgohloa, Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeal. #JusticeFikileMokgohloa #GovZAUpdates https://t.co/pRjWMClYjc
- Aug 21, 20269.5x their median
📸 UNDERWAY | The 4th Bi-National Commission between the Republic of South Africa and the Republic of Zimbabwe. His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa received His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa of the Republic of Zimbabwe. The Fourth Session of the BNC provides an opportunity for South Africa and Zimbabwe to review progress on bilateral commitments and advance cooperation in areas of mutual interest, including trade and investment, infrastructure, and economic development. #GovZAUpdates
- Aug 27, 20266.5x their median
#HousingTheNation | Who qualifies for a BNG (Breaking New Ground) Subsidised House. Visit ➡️ https://t.co/ra5F7oZtEO for more information. #ServicedeliveryZA https://t.co/TisYMgVreV
- Aug 21, 20266.0x their median
🚨 Looking for an opportunity to support the #LocalGovernmentElections2026? 🇿🇦 The IEC is recruiting Electoral Staff, including Presiding Officers, Deputy Presiding Officers and Electoral Officers. 🗓️ Applications close: 31 August 2026. Apply via the official IEC e-Recruitment system: https://t.co/AyKppoeCc0 Stay alert to scams. Only apply through official IEC channels.⚠️ #WozaLGE2026 #GetUpShowUpVote #GovZAUpdates
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 872K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 96 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 2.6K times each, and 0.17% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.304% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 96 posts sampled, 92% carry an image or video and 34% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.9K interactions, about 1463x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #govzaupdates, #justicefikilemokgohloa, #servicedeliveryza.
- What is South African Government's engagement rate on X?
- South African Government (@GovernmentZA) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 96 original posts from the last 30 days against 872,435 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, South African Government sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @GovernmentZA have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% for its size group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @GovernmentZA post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.53 posts per day across the measured window.