Campaign Updates / R2K in the News / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published December 6, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
This article below was published online by Mail&Guardian : “The secrecy Bill remains a threat to our democracy and we will continue our campaign to stop it,” the movement, which was born in opposition to the...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 29, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Ten Myths About Myths about the Secrecy Bill While R2K members were making their way to the NCOP gallery in preparation for today’s vote, we got hold of a copy of a ‘briefing’...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 29, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Thursday passed the Protection of State Information Bill – or Secrecy Bill – in parliament. The results were 34 votes in favour of the bill, 16 against....
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 28, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
On Thursday 29 November (tomorrow) the National Council of Provinces may vote to take the Secrecy Bill one step closer to becoming a Secrecy Law. After more than two years of intensive campaigning the...
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 / National Key Points / Right to Protest
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 16, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Security law: State wields apartheid’s big stick By Vinayak Bhardwaj, Bongani Mthembu & Murray Hunter The battle for the truth about Nkandla is far more significant than the recent squabble between Democratic Alliance leader...
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