Today, Friday 19 June, R2K Gauteng has planned a protest at the Johannesburg Metro Police Department, to demand that JMPD stops undermining the right to protest. This is in response to JMPD’s demand that people...
**Update: At the last minute, Joburg Metro Police have declared that our protest at their office is ‘not authorised’. We have decided to go ahead with it: https://theright2know.org/?p=5058 ** On Friday, 19 June 2015...
**UPDATE: R2K walked out of the intelligence committee meeting after the chairperson, Hon. Connie September, refused to table our letter and blocked other MPs from raising issues mentioned in the letter** Today former Member...
Right2Know together with Privacy International and the Association of Progressive Communicators submitted suggestions for right to privacy-related questions to be included in the list of issues on South Africa, Human Rights Committee, 114th session, June-July...
R2K is dismayed at reported comments of the Minister of State Security, praising the ‘Secrecy Bill’ and recommitting government to its anti-democratic provisions. City Press quotes the Minister as saying, “I know that when...
Yesterday R2K launched Big Brother Exposed – stories of activists who have been spied on and harassed by state intelligence. Below is a summary of news coverage. Download the report here. Watch footage of...
Today R2K launches Big Brother Exposed, a report that documents the stories of activists and community leaders who have been monitored and harassed by South Africa’s intelligence agencies, or people claiming to represent them....
The Right2Know campaign will again mark “Freedom Week” – 27 April (Freedom Day), 1 May (Worker’s Day) and 3 May (World Press Freedom Day) – in recognition of the democratic struggles and victories that...
R2K has made a submission on the draft White Paper on Policing, with a focus on protecting the right to protest and freedom of assembly. Protest is a fundamental right used by communities across...
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...
