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Rebecca Davis

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 28, 2026
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Jul 12, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Rebecca Davis

    Ernst Roets’ Washington cross spectacle struggles for US attention (opens the original)

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    Lex Libertas’ 3,000 white crosses in Washington event failed to attract much US media coverage, but the political connections behind it say something revealing about the growing network between global right-wing movements. Before Ernst Roets’ Lex Libertas movement erected 3,000 white crosses on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on Saturday, 26 September 2026 to represent the victims of farm attacks in South Africa, the campaign’s stated aim was to “create a powerful visual representat

  2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Rebecca Davis

    Exclusive: DA’s fake doctor claimed to sell confidential briefings on DA (opens the original)

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    Emails from high-ranking DA electoral candidate Abdulkader Elyas during his time serving on the University of Cape Town SRC appear to be littered with false claims. Five years before the DA sanctioned Cape Town councillor Abdulkader Elyas for lying about being a medical doctor, he was claiming an extraordinary side career as an in-demand speaker for big corporates and international foundations while still a University of Cape Town (UCT) student. Emails sent by Elyas obtained by Daily Maverick fr

  3. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Rebecca Davis

    Unpacking the political mess behind the DBE’s textbook row (opens the original)

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    Independent investigations into the Department of Basic Education’s new textbook catalogue have not produced any findings which justify scrapping it. The real story is about politics, not publishing. For five months, the Department of Basic Education has been embroiled in an increasingly confusing and bitter dispute over its new Foundation Phase textbook catalogue. The row was ostensibly catalysed by the publication of a media report casting doubt on the outcome of the catalogue process and re

  4. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Rebecca Davis

    Probe clears publisher at centre of DBE textbook catalogue row (opens the original)

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    A leaked Department of Basic Education presentation says an independent investigation has found no wrongdoing involving Lighthouse Publishers, whose success in the new Foundation Phase Catalogue caused outrage from legacy publishers. Lighthouse Publishers, the small publishing firm at the centre of one of South Africa’s most heated recent education controversies, has been cleared of all wrongdoing related to the new Foundation Phase textbook catalogue by an independent investigation commission

  5. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Rebecca Davis

    ‘Extraction without compensation’ – the AI dilemma facing SA’s digital media (opens the original)

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    A new study of 263 South African news websites has found that fewer than a third explicitly block access to AI crawlers collecting content with which to train and power AI systems – even if they might want to. South African news publishers are confronting an increasingly uncomfortable choice: allow AI companies access to their journalism, or risk sacrificing online visibility. This is the tension highlighted in a report, “The Protocol Gap: South Africa”, released on Tuesday by the Journali

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