This week's top trending news on social media

Acumen Media has done a seven-day analysis of the top trending stories on social media this past week. Here are the 10 biggest stories:

1. #StateCaptureInquiry tops the pile this week with explosive headlines as we saw #RobertMcBride take the stand and #DCJZondo's brother has been implicated in #StateCapture.
2. It's rough out there as #elections2019 heads for its final weeks. SA protests, orchestrated or not, have caused chaos.
3. #Eskom puts #loadshedding back on the table leaving SA exasperated.
4. Rumours are rife that the #GaddafiMillions were hidden by #Zuma.
5. The DA walked straight into the #AlexShutdown trap as #Mashaba refused to see the residents. Yesterday #Ramaphosa brought many of the cabinet members to Alex in a political move that is bound to garner votes.
6. Pieter Louis-Myburgh's #GangsterState put #AceMagashule in the top 10 as the book launch caused such controversy.
7. International stories made the top 10 as SA rejoiced for #Sudan with the removal of #AlBashir.
8. Yesterday's #EffPresser brought #VBS back to the fore as #Malema insists the EFF did not benefit from the failed bank.
9. #IsraeliApartheidWeek and #IsraelElections put the country in the top 10.
10. #Xenophobia is still on the charts as African upon African violence continues.