The crisis facing the Secrecy Bill has brought Parliament to a crossroads. Parliamentarians can either continue to waste their time and the public’s money to grapple with this disastrous Bill, or they can read...
The Right2Know Campaign (R2K) is a nation-wide coalition of people and organisations campaigning for the rights to information and free expression. It was launched in August 2010 in opposition to the Protection of Information...
…not five people in masks! The Parliamentary Communication Services has issued a statement condemning the Right2Know’s behaviour as “particularly unseemly” and threatening to apply the “full might of the law” against our supporters. This...
On Tuesday 15 February 2011, a delegation of Right2Know Campaign supporters attended a sitting of the Parliamentary Committee handling the Protection of Information Bill where the Minister of State Security was expected to make...
[Update: news reports indicate Majavu has been re-added to the party’s distribution list.] The Right2Know campaign joins calls for the Democratic Alliance to lift its ban on Sowetan journalist Anna Majavu and condemns party...
The Right2Know campaign added a new voice to organised civil society when it formally constituted itself at a summit in Cape Town last week, according to Glenda Daniels in the M&G. Non-governmental and community-based...
Right2Know is ready for the coming fight, write Sithembile Mbete and Alison Tilley SO WHAT is the state of secrecy in SA? Is it winning? You might think so, given news over the past...
Right2Know held our founding National Summit from 2 – 3 February 2011. Download the full report here. 1. Introduction The Right2Know Campaign held its’ first National Summit1 in Athlone, Cape Town from 2-...
eNews ran a segment updating us on the Secrecy Bill, still before parliament threatening our democracy. Hennie van Vuuren, the Western Cape convener of Right2Know, is interviewed.
The Right2Know Campaign has insisted time and again that the Protection of Information Bill (the Secrecy Bill) is outrageously wide-reaching, allowing all organs of state to make their affairs secret. Until now it has...
