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South Africa. !ke e: /xarra //ke Founded 2008 · 410.9K members

411.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 23.6K upvotes, which works out to 57 per 1,000 members.

57peak upvotes per 1,000 members
411.7Kmembers
23.6Kbest post
1Kmost comments
202posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

44% 24% 14% 13%
Image 44% Link 24% Video 14% Text 13% Gallery 3% Question 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Humour 31 Just for fun 23 Picture 16 Wholesome 10 2021 Civil Unrest 4 Politics 4 Sport 2 Self-Promotion 2 Hello r/all 1 Good News 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Lets upvote this so that foreigners see this picture when they Google South Africa

↑ 23.6K 💬 494 image 2017

Chips

↑ 5.3K 💬 137 image 2025

My Childhood. My grandparents shop. Looted and on fire as of this morning. I feel numb.

↑ 4.3K 💬 542 image 2021

65 years since the Sharpeville Massacre, where 69 unarmed children were killed by Apartheid police, many shot in the back while fleeing - do not ever…

↑ 4.2K 💬 222 image 2025

nobody in ZA gonna get confused at "bring chips"

↑ 3.4K 💬 243 image 2026

The Proteas have gone and bloody done it.

↑ 3.2K 💬 126 image 2025

Nostalgia

↑ 3.2K 💬 176 image 2025

Yup!

↑ 3.2K 💬 178 image 2026

Have you guys seen this?

↑ 3.2K 💬 182 video 2021

Hi r/southafrica! I've been making renders of countries using real topographic data and I just finished South Africa and Lesotho. Hope you like!

↑ 3.1K 💬 149 image 2020

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/southafrica, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/southafrica?
r/southafrica ("South Africa") describes itself this way: !ke e: /xarra //ke. It was founded in 2008 and has 410.9K members.
How many members does r/southafrica have?
r/southafrica has about 411.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 202 of its posts; the biggest reached 23.6K upvotes, which is 57 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/southafrica?
"Lets upvote this so that foreigners see this picture when they Google South Africa" reached 23.6K upvotes and 494 comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/southafrica.
What subreddits are similar to r/southafrica?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/southafrica?
Of the posts we hold, 44% are image posts and 24% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/southafrica?
Across 202 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 08:00 UTC (7.3K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 05:00 UTC (2.5K avg upvotes), Sunday at 10:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/southafrica?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/southafrica has 2.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/southafrica, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.