Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published December 13, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
On Monday representatives of the SABC 8 appeared before Parliament’s SABC inquiry – Thandeka Gqubule, Krivani Pillay, Vuyo Mvoko and Lukhanyo Calata. Their testimony on the climate of fear and censorship at the SABC...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published December 9, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Over the past two days the SABC board chairperson and executive management have shown Parliament and citizens the middle finger – first, when the SABC delegation walked out of the inquiry, and again when...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 29, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Yesterday Caxton, publishers of The Citizen newspaper, fired their editor Steven Motale after an internal disciplinary process in which Motale claims no hearing was held. The company justified the firing in corporate speak: “his...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 29, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Watch R2K’s Dale McKinley debate Piet Rampedi (Forum Journalists for Transformation) and Aubrey Tshabalala (Communication Workers Union) on media transformation in SABC”s Question Time.
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 18, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K calls for David Mahlobo to be removed as State Security Minister It is long past time that State Security Minister David Mahlobo goes. This week the Minister was revealed to have an unexplained...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate / Whistleblowers
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 15, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign commends the SABC 8 for refusing to back down in the face of death threats, bullets and intimidation. We condemn in the strongest possible terms the secret war being waged on...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 3, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
UPDATE: Shortly before 5pm on Thursday the Legal Resources Centre received a letter from the Chairperson of Parliament’s intelligence committee stating that the committee had reversed its decision and that candidates’ CVs would be published on Parliament’s...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 3, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
We were shocked and saddened at the death of our friend and comarde Jeanette Minnie, a veteran campaigner for media freedom and freedom of expression in South Africa and across the region. Jeanette was...
Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published October 27, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
We learned last week that the Independent Media has decided that it will no longer be subject to the authority of the Press Council and that the company will instead rely on its own...
Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published October 21, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K notes that Parliament has restarted the process of appointing the Inspector General of Intelligence, the civilian watchdog on South Africa’s state security structures. In the last few days Parliament has re-advertised the position,...
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