Results from the pages we run in Gqeberha.
We run ten pages in Nelson Mandela Bay: township shopping centres, supermarkets, hardware stores and local service businesses. These are their numbers as Meta reports them, with the month on every one.
Page totals, organic and paid together: Meta insights across the ten pages we manage, read 1 September 2026. Followers that morning: 55,846.
Eight township retail pages, July against August 2026.
Township shopping centres, supermarkets and hardware stores in Gqeberha make up eight of the ten pages. This is how their August compared with July.
Social media for shopping centresContent views
Organic and paid together, with Meta ads running. Read from Meta on 1 September 2026.
Up 45.5% on July. More than half of August's views came in the last week of the month, with the ads running.
Followers
Followers on the same eight pages, read from Meta on 1 July and 1 September 2026. Organic and paid together, with Meta ads running.
What shoppers stopped for in August 2026.
We rank each page's top post of the month by its reactions and comments. Two things stood out in August.
The grant pay dates, day by day
In August 2026 the top post on two of the three supermarket pages we run was about the same thing: the September grant pay dates, day by day.
Both posts had Meta ads behind them, so much of their reach and many of their reactions were paid. At the end of the month, that ad spend went behind the post that tells shoppers which day their money lands.
Meta ads in GqeberhaThe place, not the price
Across all the pages we run, the only top post of August 2026 with no Meta ad behind it was a shopping centre's post about its own neighbourhood: the school run, the taxis, the month-end list.
No special and no price. People still stopped, reacted and commented.
How we read these numbers.
Every number on this page comes from Meta's own insights for the pages we manage, and each one is labelled with the month it covers.
Where Meta ads were running, the figure counts organic and paid together, and we say so next to it. No store or centre is named here without its permission.
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