Campaign Updates / Internet Freedom / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published March 10, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
UPDATE: Sign the petition to scrap the FPB’s draft regulations at www.r2k.org.za/HandsOffOurInternet! The Right2Know Campaign calls on the public to reject the Film and Publications Board’s (FPB) proposals to censor the internet in South...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published March 10, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K was shocked to hear that Parliament’s intelligence oversight body, the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence, intends to appoint the next Inspector General of Intelligence in secret. We have written the following letter to...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published March 5, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
On Friday 6 March 2015, media and civil society organisations are joining together to protect the public’s right to know what happens in Parliament. The Cape High Court will hear a court application by Primedia...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate / Western Cape
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 24, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
For too many years our government’s national budget has reflected a commitment to conservative economic policies that gives tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations in the hope that they will create jobs and...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 24, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K notes the announcement that Al Jazeera News and the Guardian newspaper will publish a series of reports drawn from leaked documents that detail backroom dealings and discussions between various intelligence agencies across the...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 17, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign invites everyone concerned by the recent attacks on democracy in parliament to a candle light vigil on Thursday 19 February at 18h00 in the Central Methodist Church,Longmarket Street, Cape Town. We call on the...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 16, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign and the Open Democracy Advice Centre will be among the bodies bringing an urgent application in the Cape High Court on Tuesday to get an interim order to interdict Parliament from...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 13, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign condemns the use of the military to surround the Parliament, the use of security (allegedly the police) to suppress dissenting voices inside the Parliamentary Chamber, and the jamming of internet and...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 9, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign is saddened by the sudden death of Andre Brink, one of South Africa’s great literary figures. We will always remember Brink’s contribution to the fight against the draconian Secrecy Bill. At...
Campaign Updates / National Key Points / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 3, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
So the list of National Key Points is now public. This comes more than two years since R2K began campaigning against National Key Point secrecy. It is an outcome of work that started with...
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