Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published July 21, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The recent harassment of Micah Reddy, an amaBhungane investigative journalist and R2K activist, is yet another affront on freedom of expression. Micah was accosted by members of the public, who are allegedly supporters of...
Campaign Updates / Internet Freedom / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published July 21, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K strongly condemns web hosting company Hetzner South Africa for taking the website Black Opinion.co.za offline, suppressing the site contributor’s freedom to impart information. As R2K, we are convinced that Hetzner’s take-down of Black...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / Party Funding
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published July 21, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Political party finances: the public’s right to know R2K submission to Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties – 21 July 2017 Download the submission as a PDF here Introduction...
Campaign Updates / Glebelands / Right to Protest
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published July 13, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
PRESS NOTICE: THE MOERANE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO POLITICAL KILLINGS IN KWAZULU-NATAL WILL RECONVENE ON MONDAY 17 JULY WHEN TESTIMONIES FROM GLEBELANDS HOSTEL WILL BE HEARD The R15 million Commission, chaired by advocate Marumo...
The Right2Know Campaign is an umbrella group of organisations and activists campaigning to advance the free flow of information in South Africa. R2K is best known for leading the civil society campaign on the...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published July 6, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
It is with great shock and sadness that the Right2Know Campaign learned of the passing away of whistleblower and media freedom fighter, Suna Venter. It is even more saddening to note that the media...
Campaign Updates / Publications
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published July 4, 2017 · Last modified July 5, 2017
Our latest tabloid newspaper – Your Right2Know – celebrates the High Court’s ruling on government’s “secretive” Nuclear Deal process that has been hailed as a massive victory for transparency. It also warns ordinary citizens about the...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / Local Struggles
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published July 3, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
On the 30 of June 1991, South Africa’s infamous 1913 Land Act was repealed by the Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act. The end of this horrific pre-apartheid law was a milestone in...
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published June 28, 2017 · Last modified June 27, 2017
On Thursday 29 June 2017, to mark the end of Youth Month, the Right2Know Campaign in KZN will march on Cell C in Durban to demand a reduction in the costs of data. This follows...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / Whistleblowers
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published June 23, 2017 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Today is the World Whistleblower Day, a day to commemorate whistleblowers that have suffered reprisals for their public interest disclosures. While the spotlight tends to focus on more prominent whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, Chelsea...
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