R2K Gauteng statement on situation in Thembelihle
Thembelihle is burning. One person is dead and at least three are wounded. Sixteen are in jail. The community’s voice is not being heard! All of this is the result of the community’s protest...
Campaign Updates / Gauteng / Right to Protest
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 26, 2015 · Last modified July 27, 2016
Thembelihle is burning. One person is dead and at least three are wounded. Sixteen are in jail. The community’s voice is not being heard! All of this is the result of the community’s protest...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate / Western Cape
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 24, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
For too many years our government’s national budget has reflected a commitment to conservative economic policies that gives tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations in the hope that they will create jobs and...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 24, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K notes the announcement that Al Jazeera News and the Guardian newspaper will publish a series of reports drawn from leaked documents that detail backroom dealings and discussions between various intelligence agencies across the...
Campaign Updates / R2K Events / R2K in the News / Western Cape
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 20, 2015 · Last modified July 27, 2016
This article below was published by GroundUp: 20 February 2015 – Daneel Knoetze Members and supporters of the Right2Know campaign rallied in the Cape Town CBD yesterday and vowed to take back Parliament for the South...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 18, 2015 · Last modified July 27, 2016
This article below was published by The Star: February 17 2015 at 07:56am Parliament must take immediate steps to ensure that Thursday’s heavy-handed securocratic tactics are not repeated, write Micah Reddy and Murray Hunter. Parliament belongs...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 17, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign invites everyone concerned by the recent attacks on democracy in parliament to a candle light vigil on Thursday 19 February at 18h00 in the Central Methodist Church,Longmarket Street, Cape Town. We call on the...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 16, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign and the Open Democracy Advice Centre will be among the bodies bringing an urgent application in the Cape High Court on Tuesday to get an interim order to interdict Parliament from...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 13, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign condemns the use of the military to surround the Parliament, the use of security (allegedly the police) to suppress dissenting voices inside the Parliamentary Chamber, and the jamming of internet and...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / Party Funding
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 9, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K supports the Constitutional Court case brought by My Vote Counts (MVC) to challenge Parliament to pass a law to require political parties to disclose their funders. The case, which will be heard on...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 9, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign is saddened by the sudden death of Andre Brink, one of South Africa’s great literary figures. We will always remember Brink’s contribution to the fight against the draconian Secrecy Bill. At...
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