Remarkable change in SA’s civil society – M&G
Associate law professor Richard Calland used his latest column to write about Right2Know and the changing tides in South Africa’s democracy:
“Something is going on. Something potentially very remarkable, and very significant, is happening to civil society in South Africa.
Not only are new organisations emerging, and the sector re-calibrating itself after the docility and confounding ambiguity of the Mbeki years, but it is also re-prioritising. The Right2Know (R2K) campaign is a good example of this.
Who would have thought that such a large and, more importantly, diverse number of individuals and organisations would have signed up for the fight against what it calls the ‘secrecy bill’ — the Protection of Information Bill (POIB)?”
