Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by Bongani Khoza · Published April 14, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K, amaBhungane, and the Institute for Security Studies have sent letters here and here to Parliament’s joint standing committee on intelligence (JSCI), Speaker Baleka Mbete and all political parties calling for the selection of...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by Bongani Khoza · Published March 11, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K condemns Parliament’s secret process to appoint the next Inspector General of Intelligence. Parliament’s intelligence oversight body, the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence, is tasked with interviewing candidates for Inspector General of Intelligence, which...
Campaign Updates / Security State & Intelligence / Surveillance
by Bongani Khoza · Published June 9, 2021 · Last modified June 17, 2021
This week, Right2Know and Greenpeace Africa have approached the State Capture Commission of Enquiry to request access to documentation regarding abuses by the State Security Agency. These will provide evidence to information tabled by...
The Right2Know Campaign held our 10th National Summit on Zoom due to the Covid pandemic from 6-15 August 2020 (see FULL REPORT). Delegates considered the 2019 Programme Reflection, NWG Reflection, Governance Reflection, reports from...
A full year after the 2019 SONA, when President Cyril Ramaphosa promised to clean up the corruption and factional abuses at the State Security Agency, we are still waiting for results; recent events tell...
Campaign Updates / Security State & Intelligence / Surveillance
by Bongani Khoza · Published September 16, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign, Privacy International and the Legal Resources Centre welcome the Gauteng High Court ruling that parts of South Africa’s surveillance law, RICA, are unconstitutional and invalid. The case was brought by amaBungane...
In response to the Ministry of State Security’s parliamentary budget vote delivered today, the Right2Know Campaign calls on the Minister to table her entire budget (including the much-abused slush funds that have been the...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by Bongani Khoza · Published March 10, 2019 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa to, forthwith, implement all of the recommendations of the High-Level Review Panel on the State Security Agency. More specifically and immediately, to implement the Panel’s recommendation...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by Bongani Khoza · Published February 26, 2019 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign calls on President Ramaphosa to make good on his promise to release the report on dysfunction and abuses at the State Security Agency. This comes eight months after he set up...
The Right2Know campaign is hugely concerned by the recent spike in looting of shops owned by, intimidation as well as threats of violence towards foreign nationals in White City, Soweto. Soweto residents went on...
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