Category: Campaign Updates
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....
The Right2Know Campaign (www.r2k.org.za) is a coalition of civil society organisations, launched in August 2010 in opposition to the Secrecy Bill. Today the campaign has a much broader mandate: Building a people’s movement for...
Today the National Assembly adopted the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill, following a year of sporadic deliberations by the ad hoc committee. Initially tabled as a “merely technical” document, the Bill’s provisions would have...
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...
The Right2Know Campaign is proud to publish the Activist Guide to the Right2Communicate in support of our campaign to ensure everyone has access to the means of communication: Vula ‘ma connexion! We are encouraged by...
Our right to know will remain incomplete if our struggle is limited to securing access to information alone. We must struggle to ensure that information flows across society and that information forms the basis...
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...
The acquittal of Andries Tatane’s murderers last week, the increased use of the National Key Points Act to deny gatherings, and President Zuma’s attack on our right to protest in his 2013 SONA do...
Imagine the CEO of the company you buy sugar from came into your home at the end of the month and took away any sugar you had not used. This would be a simple...
On the 30 March 2013 the Right2Know Campaign responded to the Department of Education’s Draft Regulations Relating to Minimum Uniform Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure. In our submission we note that internet connectivity can enable learners to have access to vast...