ARGUS/OVERWATCH
NAMES · WHO THE NEWS NAMED · 10-07 TO 10-20

Durban

org City in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Wikidata

Named in 779 articles by 29 newsrooms, in 323 stories, on 14 of the last 14 days, first on 10-07.

Rank
0.0912
by the company kept · 1 is the top name
Articles
779
1417 mentions
Linked to
622
names in 2+ shared articles
This week
0.98×
against last week
In Houthi's circle
14%
of that hub's 30 closest names are also linked here
Bridging
0
between groups · 1 is the top bridge

Most exclusively tied top 30 · ties that pass the test on the right, most exclusive first

The names that appear with Durban in a large share of their own coverage: this name's own company. Exclusivity runs from 0, two names that meet no more than chance would have them, to 1, two names that only ever appear together. A name that is in everything, a president, is exclusive to no one, so the big names fall away here and the names that belong to this one stay. Only ties that pass the strength test count, so a pair seen twice is not a tie. Places are context and have no page.

NameKindExclusivityTogether
Sowetogpe0.768140
Proteasloc0.72878
South Africagpe0.725635
World Test Championshipevent0.66757
Gqeberhagpe0.66356
Rabadagpe0.65730
Constitutional Courtorg0.61688
Home Affairsorg0.60654
Johannesburggpe0.59897
KwaZulu-Natalorg0.58749
Cape Townloc0.57356
Rwandagpe0.568132
Robben Islandloc0.53723
Australiagpe0.509257
International Criminal Courtorg0.507133
Myanmargpe0.47591
Navi Pillayperson0.472166
Essexgpe0.4439
Libyagpe0.44119
Pretoriagpe0.42820
World War Twoevent0.42712
Nuremberggpe0.41323
High Courtorg0.4169
Greenorg0.40820
La Rochellegpe0.4055
Haguegpe0.423
Second World Warevent0.39310
Zimbabwegpe0.39119
State of Israelgpe0.38912
Tasmaniagpe0.3894

Most strongly tied the ties chance explains least

How sure the record is that two names appear together for a reason. Strength is a standard statistical test (log-likelihood): above 10.8, chance would produce the pairing less than once in a thousand times. It grows with the number of articles, so the biggest names come first here; the list on the left is where this name's own company shows.

NameStrengthTogether
South Africa6261635
Soweto1769140
Australia1725257
Rwanda1097132
Navi Pillay1060166
Proteas100278
International Criminal Court954133
Johannesburg89697
Constitutional Court85688
United Nations710164
World Test Championship66157
Gqeberha64556
Myanmar62991
Home Affairs54854
Cape Town52556

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The hubs' circles share of each hub's 30 closest names that are also linked to this one

The eight most-named figures each have an inner circle: the thirty names most tied to them. This is how much of each circle this name is also tied to. A count of shared company in the coverage, nothing more.

Shared with Houthi: AFP, Benjamin Netanyahu, CCTV, Defence, Donald Trump, ELECTIONS, Marco Rubio, United Nations, West Indies, Xi Jinping.

The year 810 articles on 38 days, 2026-02-14 to 2026-10-19 · weekly bars · 14 months on record

Left is a year ago, right is this week. Older days come from headlines only, so their counts run lower than live days.

Named together, month by month · by surprise, among that month's articles · names with a page

Stories that name Durban newest edition first · 38 shown

Names are found by a language model trained to spot them, joined to one spelling per person, and counted per article. The relations are the model's reading of the sources. Everything else is a count of who was written about together; it says nothing about why.