Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published May 30, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K has filed PAIA requests with the network operators for information about how often they hand over sensitive customer information Recently the Daily Maverick reported on a legal loophole that allows magistrates to authorise...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published May 26, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign is deeply concerned at what appears to be an attack on editorial independence by management at Media24 targeting journalists. Journalist Sipho Hlongwane is facing disciplinary action next Wednesday for his part in...
Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published May 17, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Minister of State Security David Mahlobo must give evidence or stop making bogus claims of a ‘regime change’ plot! Yesterday the Minister repeated his paranoid claims that South Africa’s democratic mobilisation is the result...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published May 10, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Today, 10 May 2017, South Africa’s human rights record will come under scrutiny at the United Nations Human Rights Council. This will include a review of South Africa’s surveillance policies, following a submission by...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published May 3, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Today (3 May) the Right2Know Campaign will mark Press Freedom Day with a protest march to the MTN headquarters in Durban, a Free Speech train cypher and a Hate Speech Bill workshop in Cape...
R2K KZN will protest outside MTN offices in Umhlanga Drive tomorrow, 03 May 2017 at 10AM. To mark World Press Freedom day, the Right2Know Campaign calls on all network providers to ensure that the...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published April 28, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K trusts South Africans to engage critically in the events surrounding the alleged “coup plotter” arrested by the Hawks on Wednesday. The evidence available does not suggest a credible threat to our constitutional democracy....
Media Freedom / National Key Points / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published April 24, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign views the recent break-in at the SABC’s office in Parliament as an attack on the public broadcaster and on Parliament itself. We are particularly concerned that journalists’ computers were targeted in...
Campaign Updates / popular education / Publications / R2K in the News / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published April 20, 2017 · Last modified April 17, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign has published STOP THE SURVEILLANCE, an activist guide to communications surveillance in South Africa. Nearly everyone in South Africa knows about a law called “RICA” (the Regulation of Interception of Communications...
Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published April 20, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign has published This article is an extract from Stop the Surveillance, a publication on communications surveillance in South Africa. Case Study 1: amaBhungane journalist bugged In 2015, it emerged that unknown...
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