Relief for media on Info Bill
The following article was published online by The New Age: The ANC agreed on Tuesday to rewrite a clause in the Protection of Information Bill that had been deemed one of the biggest remaining...
Author: Bongani Khoza
Another View: We’re lost in the maze of the secrecy bil
The following article was published in the Times Live online The latest version of the Protection of Information Bill being discussed by the ad hoc parliamentary committee is looking more dangerous than ever. ...
Pressure mounts on MPs to finalise ‘secrecy bill’
The following article was published in the BussinessDay MPs will lose considerable working time because Parliament rises for its spring recess a week before the deadline for completion CAPE TOWN — Pressure is...
Editorial: Toxic gruel
The following artcle was published online by Cape Times Last week protracted deliberations around the Protection of Information Bill continued in what has become a characteristic stop-start routine. The talks apparently ended abruptly on...
Come to our seminars on public broadcasting in KZN
The Right2Know and SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Campaigns – ensuring access to quality, citizen-focused information on every level! Right 2 Know campaign (KwaZulu-Natal) is hosting Kate Skinner of the SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition...
ANTON HARBER: Editors in bubbles undermine free media
The following article was published in BusinessDay. SOME of our editors seem determined to be their own worst enemies. The Sowetan, still reeling from the ham-handed way it dealt with the Eric Miyeni controversy,...
Parties reject bill’s ‘lack of definition’
The following article was published online by IOL News: The ANC has been criticised for dithering on a definition of national security, a cornerstone of the controversial Protection of Information Bill. The bill seeks...
Pictures from R2k Gauteng March and Rally
The following pictures are from the Right2Know Gauteng Rally and March on 13/8/2011:
ANC rethink on ‘security’ in secrecy bill
The following article was published online by Business Day: ANC poised to push for national security to be not defined at all in the “secrecy bill” legislation In a surprise move in the Parliamentary...
Right 2 Know marches to the Constitutional Court, again
The following article was published online by Daily Maverick, although other estimates of attendance are closer to 800. The Right 2 Know Campaign first organised a march to the Constitutional Court in October last...
