R2K to protest Secrecy Bill vote
Update: We are also planning a series of countrywide events next week, R2K’s National Freedom Week. Read more here! Today at 14h00 the National Assembly will vote to pass the Secrecy Bill. The Right2Know...
Category: Secrecy Bill
R2K Statement: Birth pains of the Secrecy Act
On Thursday 25 April – the eve of Freedom Day – the National Assembly will vote to pass the Protection of State Information Bill (the Secrecy Bill). Rather than responding to calls to replace...
New amendments to Secrecy Bill applauded
Johannesburg – Ruling party and opposition MPs were united in applauding changes to the Secrecy Bill, but still hugely divided on the legislation’s constitutionality in certain areas. Members of the ad hoc committee on...
MPs Adopt Protection of State Information Bill Report
MPs adopted a report on Tuesday approving changes made by the legislature’s second house last year. “The report is adopted. It is likely to be on the agenda on Thursday,” said Cecil Burgess, the...
‘Secrecy Bill’ now on final straight
THE years of protracted parliamentary deliberation on the “secrecy bill” entered the home straight on Monday, but final approval of the bill is likely to trigger a court challenge despite far-reaching amendments. The ad...
South Africa Close to Passing ‘Secrecy Bill’
JOHANNESBURG — South African legislators are looking at a final draft of the controversial Protection of State Information Bill, a proposed law that critics say would seriously curtail freedoms in Africa’s most prominent democracy....
What’s next? Protests & Events for R2K Freedom Week 2013
The Right2Know campaign will again mark South African “Freedom Week” – 27 April (Freedom Day), 1 May (Worker’s Day) and 3 May (World Press Freedom Day) – in recognition and celebration of the struggles...
R2K Statement: The “Secrecy Bill” is far from fixed!
The Right2Know Campaign wishes to address recent comments in Parliament that seek to suggest that the outstanding problems with the Secrecy Bill are all but fixed. As captured in the Right2Know Campaign’s most recent...
Report of the 2013 R2K National Summit
The Right2Know Campaign held our third National Summit in Durban from 15-17 March 2013. Delegates assessed the progress made since the second National Summit (held in Johannesburg in March 2012) and the challenges and...
R2K-affiliate communities in Soweto to hold Secrecy Bill picket outside Baragwanath Hospital
PARLIAMENTARIANS! DO THE RIGHT THING AND VOTE AGAINST SECRECY! Date:Friday, 8th March 2013 Time 12:30 – 14:00 Venue Chris Hani Road, in front of Chris Hani (Baragwanath) Hospital.Soweto The Secrecy Bill, which is now...
