Rebecca Davis

2 weeks ago | kpbs.org | Gabrielle Emanuel |Rebecca Davis

On a morning in early April, Geoffrey Chanda's phone was going off almost constantly. Truck drivers were calling him. "They are crying: 'We've got no [HIV] medicine. Where do you get [it] from?' " says Chanda, 54. For 15 years, Chanda has been meeting truckers in dusty parking lots at the border of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to give them their HIV medications. Now, he says, he doesn't know what to tell them. He's lost his job as a community health worker.

1 month ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Rebecca Davis

We live in a world where tech bros wield extraordinary power, but one of the consoling fantasies is that they are, at least, clever. A new Facebook tell-all dispels this illusion. Only a few pages into “Careless People: A story of where I used to work” by Sarah Wynn-Williams, you’ll understand why Facebook — now Meta — tried so hard to block the publication of this memoir by its former employee. Wynn-Williams is no jaded intern. She was Facebook’s global public policy manager from 2011 to 2017.

1 month ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Rebecca Davis

To better understand why certain US congressmen are targeting SA, follow the money On Wednesday, 2 April 2025, the latest attempt to punish the South African government was introduced in the US House of Representatives. The proposed bill asks for a “full review of the bilateral relationship between the United States and South Africa”, as well as the identification of “South African government officials and ANC leaders eligible for the imposition of sanctions”. Don't want to see this?

1 month ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Rebecca Davis

HIGHER LEARNING INVESTIGATION As students turn to AI to do their assignments and detection tools fail, universities scramble to rethink their assessment methods – while some institutional denial about the scale of the problem abides. A crisis is brewing in local higher learning institutions over the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to cheat – and university authorities seem to be at sea over how to handle it.

1 month ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Rebecca Davis

PARLIAMENTARY SKETCH The fragile ceasefire of the GNU unravelled in plain sight on Wednesday afternoon over the National Assembly’s vote on the Budget’s fiscal framework. It all seemed to come apart over the course of four short hours beneath the Nieuwmeester Dome. That was all it took for the delicate facade of the Government of National Unity (GNU) to shatter.