Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published September 20, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
On Wednesday 21 September, the Right2Know Campaign will tell Parliament that the high cost of data and airtime is stifling South Africans’ freedom of expression and right to communicate. We will continue to demand...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published September 20, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign welcomes the latest in a never-ending series of court victories against SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng and his cabal. The Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed Hlaudi’s application for leave to appeal...
Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published September 12, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Tomorrow, 13th September, marks day two of the illegal surveillance case being heard at the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court against a former Crime Intelligence official. Officer Bongani Cele, is accused of giving false...
Internet Freedom / R2K in the News / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published August 31, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
This article below was published by BDlive: BY BEKEZELA PHAKATHI, 30 AUGUST 2016, 20:35 THE controversial Films and Publications Amendment Bill, which seeks to regulate the digital distribution of films and games, has been...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published August 24, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K is outraged by Parliament’s decision to let the SABC off the hook, and abandoning the proposal for an inquiry into the crisis at the SABC. ANC MPs on the committee have been complicit...
Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published August 22, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign will picket tomorrow in Cape Town and Pretoria to coincide with a meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Communications. Our main demand is that Parliament must urgently reconstitute the board...
Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published August 12, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K is appalled by the recent clampdowns on journalists and media outlets in Turkey. The past few weeks have been extremely worrying for media freedom in that country, which has a shameful record of persecuting...
Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published July 27, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K Gauteng activists are currently confronting SABC management and staging a sit-in at SABC Headquarters in Auckland Park. This is in response to the SABC management’s decision to bar four journalists from entering...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published July 26, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
In a significant victory for persecuted SABC staff and the fight to reclaim the public broadcaster, the Labour Court has ruled in favour of four of the journalists who were unlawfully dismissed. Judge Robert...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published July 25, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
On Tuesday, 26 July, R2K KZN in partnership with other organisations will be marching to the SABC offices in Durban. We are marching to highlight our concerns regarding the current crisis at the SABC. As...
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