Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by Bongani Khoza · Published March 27, 2013 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign notes that the ‘General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill’ (the ‘Spy Bill’) has been finalised in the National Assembly committee and is all but ready for adoption. Despite concerns at the rushed...
Campaign Updates / Eastern Cape / Gauteng / InfoAccessNow / KZN / National Key Points / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill / Western Cape / Whistleblowers
by Bongani Khoza · Published March 22, 2013 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign held our third National Summit in Durban from 15-17 March 2013. Delegates assessed the progress made since the second National Summit (held in Johannesburg in March 2012) and the challenges and...
Campaign Updates / National Key Points / Right to Protest
by Bongani Khoza · Published March 7, 2013 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The acting Minister of Police, Dr Siyabonga Cwele, has upheld the SAPS decision to refuse to release a list of National Key Points. This comes months after SAPS original refused to release the information, after...
Campaign Updates / Gauteng / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by Bongani Khoza · Published March 6, 2013 · Last modified April 8, 2019
PARLIAMENTARIANS! DO THE RIGHT THING AND VOTE AGAINST SECRECY! Date:Friday, 8th March 2013 Time 12:30 – 14:00 Venue Chris Hani Road, in front of Chris Hani (Baragwanath) Hospital.Soweto The Secrecy Bill, which is now...
Campaign Updates / National Key Points / Right to Protest
by Bongani Khoza · Published March 3, 2013 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Minister of Police has missed the deadline (Thursday 28 February) to respond to the Right2Know Campaign’s information access request for a list of South Africa’s National Key Points. This is despite R2K’s granting...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / National Key Points / Right to Protest
by Bongani Khoza · Published February 26, 2013 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign expresses solidarity with NUMSA – who were denied the right to assemble on 27-28 February outside offices of the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) on the bounds that the NERSA...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / National Key Points / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by Bongani Khoza · Published February 19, 2013 · Last modified April 8, 2019
When GCIS announced that they would be responding to the Right2Know Campaign’s Secret State of the Nation report, we welcomed the possibility of a meaningful engagement with its empirically grounded contents, which confirm the worrying trend towards...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow / National Key Points / Party Funding / Publications / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill / Security State & Intelligence
by Bongani Khoza · Published February 17, 2013 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Introduction: Addressing SA’s climate of secrecy The R2K Secret State of the Nation report shows that 2013 will be a critical year for the right to know, with signs of increasing secrecy in our politics...
Campaign Updates / Gauteng / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by Bongani Khoza · Published February 13, 2013 · Last modified April 8, 2019
PRESS STATEMENT from Gauteng Right2Know Campaign PARLIAMENTARIANS! DO THE RIGHT THING AND VOTE AGAINST SECRECY! To coincide with the opening of Parliament on 14th February, R2K Gauteng activists will stage a picket against the...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by Bongani Khoza · Published February 11, 2013 · Last modified April 8, 2019
On Tuesday 12 February 2013, the Parliamentary committee dealing with the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill (the so-called “Spy Bill”) starts work again, aiming to adopt the Bill by 20 March 2013. The Right2Know...
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