Campaign Updates / Gauteng / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by Bongani Khoza · Published September 4, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
PRESS STATEMENT from Gauteng Right2Know Campaign SECRECY BILL PROTEST PICKETS To voice our remaining concerns with the Secrecy Bill the Right2Know Campaign will hold protest pickets across Gauteng in the first week of September...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by Bongani Khoza · Published August 29, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Right2Know has called many times for MPs to push back against the securocrats who introduced the Secrecy Bill to bolster their own powers, and today’s deliberations suggest that this may be happening at last....
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by Bongani Khoza · Published August 29, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
WHAT’S STILL WRONG WITH THE SECRECY BILL Despite many victories over the last two years, the Secrecy Bill (the Protection of State Information Bill) remains a threat to our democracy. While R2K’s impact on...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by Bongani Khoza · Published August 24, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
On Wednesday 28 August, the Protection of State Information Bill (the Secrecy Bill) enters the final stages of Parliamentary deliberation. A recent Parliamentary programme has the Secrecy Bill scheduled to be voted through the...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by Bongani Khoza · Published August 24, 2012 · Last modified July 27, 2016
The Right2Know Campaign is an umbrella group of organisations and activists mobilising and advocating for access to information and against secrecy in government and the private sector. R2K is best known for leading the...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by Bongani Khoza · Published August 13, 2012 · Last modified July 27, 2016
The following article was published online by the Mail&Guardian. It should also be noted that Maharaj’s apparent concern about confidentiality is highly selective. Mac Maharaj’s disingenuous attack on the Right2Know campaign, “Mac: This is...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by Bongani Khoza · Published August 6, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Mac Maharaj’s disingenuous attack on the Right2Know Campaign (Mail&Guardian 3 August 2012) ironically smacks of the very “self-interest” he accuses his critics of, showing an alarming disregard for the rights of whistleblowers in the...
Campaign Updates / InfoAccessNow
by Bongani Khoza · Published August 2, 2012 · Last modified July 27, 2016
3-5 August 2012 Cape Town The Open Data and Democracy Initiative (ODADI) is inviting Cape Town’s top programmers, designers, journalists, and social activists to their inaugural event, the “Coding for Democracy” Hackathon on 3-5...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by Bongani Khoza · Published July 30, 2012 · Last modified July 27, 2016
The following article was published on line by the SABC Recently, the African National Congress (ANC) contingent of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) proposed some major concessions on the controversial Protection of State...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by Bongani Khoza · Published July 30, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The the planned migration from analog to digital terrestrial television will free up considerable spectrum to be used to deliver telecommunications services and digital television will allow for significantly more TV channels to be...
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