Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published May 3, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign aims to ensure everyone living in South Africa is free to access and to share information. This vision will never be realised without a strong, critical, well-funded media sector, that is...
Campaign Updates / Freedom Week / InfoAccessNow / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published April 27, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know campaign is hosting a series of events to mark South African “Freedom Week” – 27 April (Freedom Day), 1 May (Worker’s Day) and 3 May (World Press Freedom Day) – in recognition...
Campaign Updates / KZN / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published April 12, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Members of the Right 2 Know Campaign in KwaZulu Natal, took part in the 27th ecumenical Good Friday procession on 6 April 2012. The silent march was part of the service organised by the Durban Council...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill / Western Cape
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published March 30, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Yesterday, sections of the ANC, SACP and SANCO in the Cape Metro issued a public statement announcing that they will be marching to Parliament later this morning to show their support for the Secrecy Bill....
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published March 26, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Submission to National Council of Provinces Re: NCOP Public Hearings on Protection of State Information Bill 26 March 2012 1. Introduction An Ad Hoc Committee of the National Council of Provinces (“NCOP”) was established...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 17, 2012 · Last modified July 27, 2016
The following article was published online by The Witness IN 1976 it was the young students who took to the streets to defy the apartheid government, yesterday it was the KwaZulu-Natal students who came...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 14, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The following article was published online by IOL News More than 800 people – including the public, NGOs, political party members and unions – filled the Rhoda Yende Hall in Sharpeville on Tuesday for...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published February 13, 2012 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The NCOP hearings continue this week in Gauteng and KZN. Be sure to download this 3-page briefer, Key Questions on the Secrecy Bill (and share it widely)*. Here’s the updated (13 Feb) schedule on upcoming...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published December 5, 2011 · Last modified July 27, 2016
The following article was published in the Daily Maverick Cosatu secretary-general Zwelinzima Vavi met with the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) on Wednesday morning to plan a way forward on the opposition to...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published December 5, 2011 · Last modified July 27, 2016
The following article was published in the New York Times DEFENDERS of freedom in South Africa are deeply worried these days. The health of one of the world’s most celebrated democracies, which emerged after...
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