Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by Bongani Khoza · Published September 9, 2011 · Last modified April 8, 2019
DEMAND THE RIGHT TO KNOW! STOP THE SECRECY BILL! March to Parliament: 10am – 1pm, Saturday 17 September 2011 It’s been almost one year since R2K mounted its first march on Parliament in protest...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by Bongani Khoza · Published September 8, 2011 · Last modified July 27, 2016
The following article was published online by The IOL Comedians. Some of the few people on the planet who can say the things that are on most people’s minds and actually get away with...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by Bongani Khoza · Published September 5, 2011 · Last modified July 27, 2016
the following article was published online by the Eyewitness News Civil society organisations claim they are gearing up for a massive protest against the ‘secrecy bill’. MPs will vote on the finalised version of...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by Bongani Khoza · Published September 2, 2011 · Last modified July 27, 2016
The following article was published online by The Mail & Guardian “We think it will prove unconstitutional,” said Alison Tilley of the Open Democracy Advice Centre after the Bill was finalised. At issue is...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by Bongani Khoza · Published September 2, 2011 · Last modified July 27, 2016
The following article was published online by the Pretoria News The absence of a public-interest defence clause in the Protection of Information Bill means it is destined for a Constitutional Court challenge, where critics...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by Bongani Khoza · Published September 1, 2011 · Last modified July 27, 2016
The following article was published online by the SABC News Some opposition parties are to petititon the President Jacob Zuma over the constitutionality of the Protection of Information Bill. The parliamentary committee is set...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by Bongani Khoza · Published August 31, 2011 · Last modified July 27, 2016
The following article was published online by News24 Cape Town – Opposition parties urged the ANC on Tuesday to strike a provision from the protection of information bill that would allow intelligence agents to...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by Bongani Khoza · Published August 29, 2011 · Last modified July 27, 2016
The following article was published online by the BusinessDay THE “public interest” is a term that has been much in the news lately, first with Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World bugging scandal, then...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by Bongani Khoza · Published August 29, 2011 · Last modified July 27, 2016
The following article was published online by News24 Cape Town – The Right2Know Campaign on Monday said changes made to the protection of information bill by lawmakers have failed to deliver legislation befitting a...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by Bongani Khoza · Published August 29, 2011 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Parliament wants us to accept a Secrecy Bill that’s only half bad – but the Bill is fundamentally flawed. One full year ago, on 31 August 2010, the Right2Know campaign launched as a broad-based...
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