Category: National Key Points
R2K Statement: World Press Freedom Day!
Today, 03 May 2018, the Right2Know Campaign marks the World Press Freedom Day. This year’s theme is Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law. The theme highlights the importance of...
Statement: R2K rejects the ‘new National Key Points’ Bill
On Wednesday 31 January 2018, the Right2Know Campaign will brief the Portfolio Committee on Police on why it rejects the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill. The Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill seeks to replace the apartheid-era...
R2K Submission on Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill
Right2Know Submission on the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill 1 Introduction The Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill (the Bill) seeks to replace the apartheid-era National Key Points Act, on the back of growing criticism of the...
R2K briefing: Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill
Briefing document: Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill Parliament is considering a new Bill to replace the National Key Points Act, an apartheid-era security law. Its name is the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill – the public...
R2K statement on the SABC Parliamentary office break-in!
The Right2Know Campaign views the recent break-in at the SABC’s office in Parliament as an attack on the public broadcaster and on Parliament itself. We are particularly concerned that journalists’ computers were targeted in...
Download: R2K’s submission on draft Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill
In light of all the controversy around the ‘National Key Points Act’, the Civilian Secretariat for Police Service has introduced the Draft “Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill’, which was open to the public for commentary...
R2K briefing: the draft Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill
The draft “Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill” is open for public comment until 15 June 2016. The draft Bill seeks to replace the National Key Points Act, an Apartheid law passed in 1980 to deal...
National Key Points: DA’s shadow bill misses the point
On Wednesday, the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) new shadow minister of police, Zakhele Mbhele, will brief parliament’s police committee on the DA’s Bill to replace the National Key Points Act. The Bill has huge implications...
R2K Western Cape: People don’t need ‘permission’ to protest!
R2K Western Cape is appalled to learn that the City of Cape Town still believes that the public must ‘apply’ to hold protests, rather than merely notify the authorities as stated by the Regulation...
