Women journalists in South Africa crack major investigative, corruption-busting stories and exercise their freedom of expression on social media. Their contributions, therefore, to deepening democracy is significant and shows evidence of how they exercise power. However, there is also a misogynistic power pressing down upon them on social media, when they are trolled. The country’s women journalists are vilified and threatened online, referred to as “cybermisogyny”, which is the online hatred and bullying of women (Daniels, 2020). South Africa is by no means alone in this growing trend which is now becoming an international scourge as indicated in the article “The Chilling: the biggest issue in world press freedom is attacks against women journalists” (Daniels, 2021).
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