South African Government engagement report
@GovernmentZA - 874K followers on X
Measured over 151 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 874K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 151 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% of 15,519 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 0.226% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.303% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 151 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video and 27% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.4K interactions, about 1395x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #govzaupdates, #justicefikilemokgohloa, #unga81.
Measured over 151 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026. Recurring tags: #govzaupdates, #justicefikilemokgohloa, #unga81.
Compared with accounts its own size
South African Government's engagement rate beats 10% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 18% 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 157,233 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.128% |
| 75th percentile | 0.604% |
| 90th percentile | 2.32% |
| 99th percentile | 83.4% |
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 Wednesday 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% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 91% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 27% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 91% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 27% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 359 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Aug 29, 20261395x their median
It’s all over in Cape Town as the Boks pull one back in #RugbysGreatestRivalry 🇿🇦 #Springboks #ForeverGreenForeverGold https://t.co/dgK2xL43NY
- Sep 7, 2026187x their median
🇿🇦 A familiar leader returns to guide Bafana Bafana towards greater heights. Welcome back, Coach Pitso! ⚽🔥 #BafanaBafana #SouthAfrica #GovZAUpdates https://t.co/b6r3IAUpc7
- Aug 28, 2026160x 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
- Sep 22, 202668x their median
LOOKING FOR WORK? 🔍 Take the next step towards finding employment opportunities. Register as a work-seeker on the Department of Employment and Labour’s Employment Services of South Africa (ESSA) database. 📌 Create your profile 📄 Capture your CV and qualifications 💼 Search and apply for available opportunities 👉 Register today: https://t.co/HIPrBKsAkf #GovZAUpdates #JobSeekers #ESSA
- Aug 29, 202627x their median
Obituary of the late Justice Fikile Eunice Mokgohloa #JusticeFikileMokgohloa #GovZAUpdates https://t.co/us4nR8aOtW
- Sep 22, 202621x their median
Minister in The Presidency, Ms Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, leads the cleaning of streets in Kwa-Thema, Ekurhuleni, accompanied by MMC for Community Services, Cllr Siyabonga Moloi, and Cllr Sizwe Nhleko of Ward 78, as part of the Love Your Street Campaign. 🧹🇿🇦 The campaign brings communities together to promote clean, safe and well-maintained neighbourhoods while encouraging residents to take pride in the spaces they call home. #GovZAUpdates #LoveYourStreet #CleanCommunities
- Sep 23, 202616x their median
RECAP 📸 | Minister in the Presidency, Ms Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, joined the Kwa-Thema community in Ekurhuleni for the #LoveYourStreet initiative, leading a tree-planting ceremony at Indaba Tree Heritage Park in remembrance of the young women who lost thier lives to gender-based violence and femicide. Joined by MMC for Community Services, Cllr Siyabonga Moloi, and Cllr Sizwe Nhleko of Ward 78, the Minister also took part in a community clean-up and engaged the media on the importance of taking pride in our streets. The trees planted will grow as living symbols of life, remembrance, strength and hope, while the clean-up reinforces a shared responsibility to build cleaner, safer and more caring communities. #GovZAUpdates #LoveYourStreet #EndGBV #SaferCommunities
- Sep 7, 202612x their median
Seven provinces are now free from load reduction! ⚡🇿🇦 The Eastern Cape is the latest province to achieve this milestone, marking significant progress towards ending load reduction across South Africa. Work continues in the remaining areas as Eskom strengthen energy security and keep powering the nation forward. #EndingLoadReduction #EnergySecurity #OperationalProgress #PoweringSouthAfrica
- Sep 22, 202611x their median
Listen 🎙️ | South Africa’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Mxolisi Sizo Nkosi, outlines South Africa’s priorities ahead of the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly. These include UN Security Council reform and permanent African representation, the International Panel on Inequality, global governance of artificial intelligence, climate change and South Africa’s broader multilateral agenda. #UNGA81 #GovZAUpdates
- Aug 27, 202611x 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
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 6 interactions against 874K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 151 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% of 15,519 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 0.226% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.303% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 151 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video and 27% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.4K interactions, about 1395x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #govzaupdates, #justicefikilemokgohloa, #unga81.
- 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 151 original posts from the last 30 days against 873,647 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 157,233 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 10% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter 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 Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.3 posts per day across the measured window.