Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / National Key Points / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 24, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Right2Know Submission on the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill 1 Introduction The Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill (the Bill) seeks to replace the apartheid-era National Key Points Act, on the back of growing criticism of the...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published November 3, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Shadow of the Secrecy Bill – no to SSA censorship threats! R2K rejects the State Security Agency’s desperate threats against the publishers of The President’s Keepers, written by veteran investigative journalist Jacques Pauw. Today...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence / Whistleblowers
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published October 11, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K is dismayed by the continued victimisation of Parliamentary whistleblower Zelda Holtzman, after a disciplinary inquiry has recommended her dismissal. This comes two years after Holtzman was suspended. We remain convinced that the attempts...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published September 21, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
This opinion piece by R2K’s Murray Hunter appeared in The Daily Dispatch on 25 August 2017 Where were you on this day exactly five years ago? Did you make any phone calls? Send any...
Arms Deal / Campaign Updates / Gauteng / InfoAccessNow / R2K Events / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence / Whistleblowers
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published September 19, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
[Update, 26 October: The first hearings have been re-scheduled to 3-7 February 2017] People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime in South Africa Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg First Hearings: 8-12 November 2017 Press Release – Call...
Internet Freedom / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published September 13, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
[UPDATE Oct 2018 — As of 23 October 2018, a substantially revised version of the Cybercrimes Bill was tabled in Parliament, with the cybersecurity portions of the Bill tripped out. The 23 Oct 2018...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published August 23, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Today R2K releases statistics from MTN, Vodacom, Cell C and Telkom that show that government accesses tens of thousands of people’s sensitive communications information every year using a loophole in South Africa’s surveillance policies....
Campaign Updates / Internet Freedom / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published August 11, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
[UPDATE Oct 2018 — As of 23 October 2018, a substantially revised version of the Cybercrimes Bill was tabled in Parliament, with the cybersecurity portions of the Bill tripped out. The 23 Oct 2018...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published August 1, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K welcomes the conviction of former Crime Intelligence official Bongani Cele, who was found guilty of illegally spying on phone communications of two Sunday Times journalists, Mzilikazi wa Afrika and Stephan Hofstatter in 2010....
Campaign Updates / Internet Freedom / R2K in the News / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published July 28, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Cybercrimes Bill makes cyberspace less secure It also has a sinister provision that will make it easier for State Security to undermine privacy and freedom By Murray Hunter and Alison Tilley 28 July 2017...
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