The Right2Know campaign will again mark South African “Freedom Week” – 27 April (Freedom Day), 1 May (Worker’s Day) and 3 May (World Press Freedom Day) – in recognition and celebration of the struggles...
Professor Jane Duncan (also a member of R2K) writes on media transformation in the New Age: Next week the industry representative body for the press, Print and Digital Media South Africa, will be holding...
South Africa’s print media remains dominated by four major commercial companies that control over 80% of all circulation (with Media24/Naspers controlling 40% alone) and content and distribution remain highly skewed to the English speaking urban population....
The ICASA Amendment Bill tabled by the Minister of Communications in 2012 represents a threat to the independence for the telecommunications and broadcasting regulator. ICASA needs to systematically drive down telecommunication costs and create a broadcasting...
The Right2Know campaign believes that the proposed ICASA Amendment Bill (Notice No 970, Government Gazette Vol 569 No 35901, 23 November 2012) should be withdrawn in its entirety, pending the outcome and recommendations of the...
(this draft vision was draft vision for the digital broadcasting era that R2K will strive to debate, finalise and popularise) Draft Vision for the Digital Broadcasting era To ensure strong, public, citizen-orientated programming in the...
Dear R2Kers, friends and colleagues INVITE TO A WORKSHOP ON DIGITAL BROADCASTING – 29 OCTOBER 2012 South Africa is on the brink of moving to digital television. There are promises and pitfalls… Promises include...
Dear community radio comrades and friends, The establishment and legalization of community radio in South Africa is a part of our national heritage that all freedom loving South Africans can be proud of. In...
Mac Maharaj’s disingenuous attack on the Right2Know Campaign (Mail&Guardian 3 August 2012) ironically smacks of the very “self-interest” he accuses his critics of, showing an alarming disregard for the rights of whistleblowers in the...
The the planned migration from analog to digital terrestrial television will free up considerable spectrum to be used to deliver telecommunications services and digital television will allow for significantly more TV channels to be...
