R2K is outraged by Parliament’s decision to let the SABC off the hook, and abandoning the proposal for an inquiry into the crisis at the SABC. ANC MPs on the committee have been complicit...
The Right2Know Campaign will picket tomorrow in Cape Town and Pretoria to coincide with a meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Communications. Our main demand is that Parliament must urgently reconstitute the board...
R2K is appalled by the recent clampdowns on journalists and media outlets in Turkey. The past few weeks have been extremely worrying for media freedom in that country, which has a shameful record of persecuting...
R2K Gauteng activists are currently confronting SABC management and staging a sit-in at SABC Headquarters in Auckland Park. This is in response to the SABC management’s decision to bar four journalists from entering...
In a significant victory for persecuted SABC staff and the fight to reclaim the public broadcaster, the Labour Court has ruled in favour of four of the journalists who were unlawfully dismissed. Judge Robert...
On Tuesday, 26 July, R2K KZN in partnership with other organisations will be marching to the SABC offices in Durban. We are marching to highlight our concerns regarding the current crisis at the SABC. As...
The Right2Know Campaign is seriously concerned by the threats made against the station manager and other employees of Madibeng FM, a community radio station in Brits. Earlier today members of the Bapo Ba Mogale Traditional...
The following statement has been issued by educators in journalism and media studies (PDF version). “We, the undersigned educators in journalism, media studies and related subjects, condemn in the strongest terms the arbitrary suspension...
The Right2Know Campaign and the SOS Coalition stands in solidarity with the eight SABC journalists who have just been fired, effectively for challenging censorship at the public broadcaster. What followed was a process that...
The Right2Know Campaign welcomes the decision by ICASA that the SABC’s ban on coverage of protests is in violation of the Broadcasting Act. There was only one way in which ICASA could legitimately have...
