SEASON 3: Free Media, Free Minds
R2K and Cape Town Community TV have produced the third 13 episode talk show exploring aspects of the right to know. View the episodes here.
Category: Right to Protest
R2K Statement: Parliament’s rush and President’s silence makes Secrecy Bill ‘referral’ a sham
The Right2Know Campaign condemns Parliament’s plan to rush the Secrecy Bill back to the President in two days. These are the facts: The President has refused to sign the Bill in its current form,...
R2K Statement: Zuma declines Secrecy Bill, Parliament must now redeem themselves
The Right2Know Campaign welcomes President Zuma’s acknowledgement that the Secrecy Bill does not pass constitutional muster. We welcome the President’s decision not to sign the Secrecy Bill and to return it to Parliament for...
R2K and SAHA to go to court for list of National Key Points
On 5 September, the Right2Know Campaign and the South African History Archive (SAHA) served court papers on the Minister of Police and Minister of Defence and War Veterans, to access a public list of...
Join our National Key Point Picnics
Join the Right2Know Campaign in challenging the National Key Points Act to celebrate our 3rd Birthday. Contact us to organise a picnic in September at a suspected National Key Point near you, or to...
Right2Know campaign turns three!
A version of this article appeared in the Weekend Argus on 1 September 2013. The Right2Know has caused heavyweight politicians to fume, it has reenergised civil society and has helped change the law. Not...
Can I take pictures or video of a National Key Point
This is an excerpt of R2K’s advisory on the right to take photos without police harassment. See more at r2k.org.za/filmthepolice The apartheid-era National Key Points Act makes it an offence to publish information about...
R2K endorses Civil society letter to United States Congress on Internet and telecommunications surveillance
Members of US Congress: We write as a coalition of civil society organizations from around the world to express our serious alarm regarding revelations of Internet and telephone communications surveillance of US and non-US...
R2K statement on the National Key Points Act review
The recent decision by the Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa, to review the constitutionality of the National Key Points Act is both welcome and long overdue. The Act, a relic of the apartheid era,...
Tonight: Secrecy Bill vigil outside President’s Durban residence
Tonight (Thursday 16 May) the Right2Know Campaign will be holding a vigil outside President Zuma’s Durban residence calling on him not to sign the Secrecy Bill into law. The vigil will take place form 6pm to...
