South Africans Organising Against Government Secrecy Bill
This report on the Right2Know Week of Action appeared in Voice of America:
“More than 400 organizations and 10,000 individuals in South Africa have banded together in a campaign against a proposed law that would severely curtail the media freedoms guaranteed in the country’s constitution.
The Right2Know campaign was established a month ago to oppose the so-called Protection of Information Bill that is being considered by parliament in Cape Town.
National Coordinator Mark Weinberg says that for the past week the organization has been engaged in a series of activities to highlight their cause.
“And in the week of action we have done things from community meetings across the country, a march up in Johannesburg, film screenings. In Durban yesterday, there was a cavalcade of hearses and coffins symbolizing the death of democracy,” he said.”