Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 28, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
After more than two years of intensive campaigning the Right2Know returns to our founding statement and concludes that – despite the many amendments we have secured – the Secrecy Bill still fails our Right2Know...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / R2K in the News / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill / Western Cape / Whistleblowers
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 22, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The article below was published online by UNCUT South Africa’s Right2Know Campaign (R2K) is “Camping out for Openness” outside parliament in Cape Town this week as deliberations over the draconian Protection of State Information...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill / Western Cape
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 22, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The following article was published online by the Daily Maverick. Wednesday saw the beginning of the last round of Parliamentary deliberations on the controversial Protection of State Information Bill, from the ad hoc committee...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 22, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
In a late-night meeting in Parliament yesterday, the ANC used its numerical majority to force the Secrecy Bill one step closer to becoming a Secrecy Law. Members of the NCOP ad hoc committee have...
Campaign Updates / Gauteng / InfoAccessNow / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 20, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
On Tuesday, 20 November, the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) demanded the Right2Know Campaign pay a R130 fee, otherwise the JMPD refused to receive notice of R2K’s public gathering. R2K will hold a candlelight...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill / Western Cape
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 16, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Join us every evening of the Right2Know Camp Out for Openness at 19h00 for a FREEDOM FILM FESTIVAL hosted in partnership with the Tri Continental Film Festival. MONDAY: Cointelpro 101 (56 min) In 1971, an American leftist activist...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill / Western Cape
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 15, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Yesterday (Wednesday 14 November) we witnessed a further postponement of the Secrecy Bill’s passage into law following the absence of opposition politicians at the afternoon’s meeting of the National Council of Provinces ad hoc committee. We call...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill / Western Cape
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 10, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Secrecy Bill is set to pass through the NCOP by the end of this month and the securocrats have dug in their heels. Yet across the country, we’ve seen the rise of a...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published October 31, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Minister of State Security, Siyabonga Cwele, has just given his response in Parliament to the amendments to the Secrecy Bill, proposed by the NCOP Committee deliberating on the Protection of State Information bill...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published October 25, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Dear R2Kers, friends and colleagues INVITE TO A WORKSHOP ON DIGITAL BROADCASTING – 29 OCTOBER 2012 South Africa is on the brink of moving to digital television. There are promises and pitfalls… Promises include...
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