Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by Bongani Khoza · Published October 21, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K notes that Parliament has restarted the process of appointing the Inspector General of Intelligence, the civilian watchdog on South Africa’s state security structures. In the last few days Parliament has re-advertised the position,...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by Bongani Khoza · Published May 3, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
PRESS FREEDOM DAY 2016: CHALLENGES TO MEDIA FREEDOM IN SOUTH AFRICA World Press Freedom Day on 3 May 2016 marks twenty five years since the adoption of the Windhoek Declaration on Promoting an Independent and...
Campaign Updates / Internet Freedom / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by Bongani Khoza · Published April 26, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Memorandum to Department of Justice: Demands to Stand Against Surveillance and Fix RICA! 26 April 2016 On 30 March 2016, a report by the United Nations Human Rights Committee came down hard on South...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by Bongani Khoza · Published April 26, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Today the Minister of State Security David Mahlobo delivered the State Security Agency (SSA) budget vote. It’s a long speech, with lots of things worth mentioning, but what does it actually tell us about...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by Bongani Khoza · Published March 31, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
SA government must start respecting human rights! Stop surveillance, protect activists, and prosecute the Marikana murderers R2K welcomes the UN Human Rights Committee’s hard-hitting report on South Africa’s record on civil and political rights....
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by Bongani Khoza · Published March 16, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K welcomes the withdrawal of Cecil Burgess’s name as the next Inspector-General of Intelligence. The National Assembly voted to withdraw Burgess’s name this afternoon after 9 months of delays and evasion. This is a...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by Bongani Khoza · Published March 15, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K is highly dismayed by the Speaker of Parliament’s blatant bias displayed in a letter she wrote to Members of Parliament on Monday regarding the appointment of the Inspector General of Intelligence. In...
The Right2Know Campaign held its sixth National Summit in Gelnwood, Durban, from 26 – 28 February 2016. The Summit constituted of delegates elected at Provincial Summits in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Western Cape, as well as...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by Bongani Khoza · Published February 22, 2016 · Last modified July 27, 2016
This article below was published by BDlive: BY TROYE LUND, FEBRUARY 22 2016, 05:57 PARLIAMENT has been served with legal papers demanding it appoint a new inspector-general of intelligence, the surveillance watchdog who keeps...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by Bongani Khoza · Published February 15, 2016 · Last modified July 27, 2016
This article below was published by the Weekend Argus NEWS/POLITICS / 14 February 2016 at 15:17pm By: ZENZILE KHOISAN Cape Town – The position of inspector general of intelligence has been vacant since advocate Faith Radebe left...
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