R2K marches for Marikana
R2K Western Cape was a part of a coalition of organisations convening Marikana solidarity action this week. Our substantive work here has been in a vigil on police brutality in town on Friday and...
Category: Right to Protest
STATEMENT: R2K Gauteng supports the Marikana Solidarity Campaign
Issued by the Right2Know Campaign, 11 August 2014 The Right2Know Gauteng supports the Marikana Solidarity Campaign at the Marikana Commission today as Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is appearing at the Commission. Ramaphosa, who is...
STATEMENT: R2K strongly condemns the arrest of Free State community health workers and TAC activists
Issued by the Right2Know Campaign, 11 July 2014. The Right2Know Campaign strongly condemns the arrest of more than 150 Free State health workers and TAC activists. About 100 were arrested by police in Bloemfontein...
INVITE: R2K Gauteng Workshop: Defending the right to protest
R2K Gauteng invites you to a one-day workshop on ‘Defending the Right to Protest’, as part of a series of engagements which has been taking place among R2K and allied structures across the country....
Analysis: Rica & privacy in South Africa – how big is Big Brother?
From GroundUp.org.za: How serious is state surveillance of telephone calls in South Africa? The problem is we don’t know Last Friday, a year and a day after Edward Snowden first blew the whistle on...
R2K Statement: R2K wins court victory for the right to protest, now picketing at Arms Deal Commission!
The Right2Know Campaign has succeeded in having the prohibition of its right to protest outside the Seriti Arms Procurement Commission, overturned in the Pretoria High Court. Yesterday the Right2Know Campaign was forced to lodge...
R2K Statement: Tshwane Metro Police have blocked R2K Picket at Arms Deal Commission!
Today, June 11th – the Right2Know Campaign was forced to lodge an urgent appeal in the Pretoria High Court contesting the decision by the Tshwane Metro and Police to limit our democratic right to...
R2K Statement on Nkandla: Abuse of national security is a symbol of the Zuma presidency
The Right2Know Campaign condemns the security cluster ministers’ announcement that they will challenge the Public Protector’s report on Nkandla in the High Court. This move is the latest example of the use of ‘state...
R2K Western Cape: silent vigil against government secrecy
This article first appeared on People’s Assembly (pa.org.za) With the lead up to elections, representatives of the Right2Know (R2K) social movement campaign marched through the streets of Cape Town on Friday, May 2, in...
Freedom Week Film Screenings
Right2Know’s 2014 Freedom Week programme includes nine screenings of Miners Shot Down. The film is a haunting glimpse into the days leading up to the massacre of 34 miners in Marikana in August 2012....
