R2K will challenge Secrecy Act in court
After Parliament’s farcical review of the Secrecy Bill it is now clear that President Zuma intends to sign the Bill into Law. The Right2Know is ready to take Secrecy Act to the Constitutional Court. We are...
Category: Right to Communicate
Parliament passes Secrecy Bill again, and again (and then again)
Parliament passes Secrecy Bill again, and again (and then again) Yesterday after 5pm the National Assembly adopted the Secrecy Bill, defending its constitutionality for the third time in less than a year. MPs have...
Help us find Films for Popular Education
The Right2Know Campaign is calling on supporters to recommend films that you think our activists should watch to develop our understanding of differ issues impacting on the right to know in South Africa.
SEASON 3: Free Media, Free Minds
R2K and Cape Town Community TV have produced the third 13 episode talk show exploring aspects of the right to know. View the episodes here.
Canning of The Big Debate: R2K suspects political interference
This article was published by Jeanette Chabalala @City Press 24 October 2013 15:25 “Power to the people” and “Secrets kill democracy”. These were among the slogans supporters of the Right2Know campaign (R2K) displayed during...
No big debate: the SABC, censorship, and more censorship on Media Freedom Day
This article was published in The Daily Maverick on the 22 OCTOBER 2013 01:59 On Wednesday 17 October, two days before South Africans were due to commemorate National Media Freedom Day, the SABC pulled the popular...
Right2Know warns of political threat to press freedom
This article was published online by eNCA on 19 October 2013. Watch the video interview here. October 19, 1977 was a turning point in South African history. On Black Wednesday, as the day became known, the apartheid state...
Right2know plans to protest the SABC’s canning of the Big Debate show ahead of national Media Freedom Day
The Right2Know Campaign is outraged at the decision of the SABC to pull the independently produced current affairs talk show, ‘The Big Debate’, off air directly before the start of this show’s second season....
Right2know call to protest the SABC’s canning of the Big Debate show ahead of national Media Freedom Day
The Right2Know Campaign is outraged at the decision of the SABC to pull the independently produced current affairs talk show, ‘The Big Debate’, off air directly before the start of this show’s second season....
R2K Statement: Parliament’s rush and President’s silence makes Secrecy Bill ‘referral’ a sham
The Right2Know Campaign condemns Parliament’s plan to rush the Secrecy Bill back to the President in two days. These are the facts: The President has refused to sign the Bill in its current form,...
