On Monday 20 April 2015, R2K and the Open Democracy Advice Centre will be two of the applicants back in court to continue the challenge to Parliament’s broadcasting policy, which we believe allows for...
R2K, amaBhungane, and the Institute for Security Studies have sent letters here and here to Parliament’s joint standing committee on intelligence (JSCI), Speaker Baleka Mbete and all political parties calling for the selection of...
What is the real cost of communications for ordinary people? R2K, in collaboration with the LINK Centre at Wits, has conducted a study on the lived cost of communications in South Africa. For many...
In South Africa, as in much of the rest of the world, telecommunication services are concentrated in a handful of monopolistic private companies that reap massive profits at the expense of ordinary South Africans....
R2K is proud to launch Expanding the Right to Communicate: an Activist Guide to Internet Access. For the past two years, the Right2Know Campaign has been building a public campaign for more democratic access to telecommunications....
The Right2Know Campaign is deeply distressed that respected Swazi editor Bheki Makhubu and human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko have begun their second year in jail. The pair was sentenced for contempt of court to...
R2K Western Cape condemns the Western Cape government’s decision to stop its subscriptions to the Cape Times. The decision has been framed by the Western Cape government as a response to the poor quality...
R2K is outraged to learn that Parliament’s intelligence committee, the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence, has gone ahead in secret to interview candidates for the intelligence ombud, the Inspector General of Intelligence. Not only...
This article below was published by News24: 2015-03-11 15:27 It’s official: The State Security Agency has launched an investigation into the source of the spy cable leaks. Regardless of the outcome, we can be sure...
R2K condemns Parliament’s secret process to appoint the next Inspector General of Intelligence. Parliament’s intelligence oversight body, the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence, is tasked with interviewing candidates for Inspector General of Intelligence, which...
