The ANC caucus on the Protection of State Information Bill (the Secrecy Bill) backtracked on several vital concessions last night. Though in recent weeks and months the ANC proposed a number of amendments to...
No Secrets, No Lies, No More Power To The Spies! 1pm, Sat 8 Sept: R2K Mass Meeting on the Continued Struggle Against Secrecy It’s crunch time for the Secrecy bill! The NCOP in Parliament...
OPEN LETTER: A call to all political parties: Don’t rush the ‘Secrecy Bill’, and don’t rush it in secret. Address all seven unresolved problems. To: Members of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Protection...
PRESS STATEMENT from Gauteng Right2Know Campaign SECRECY BILL PROTEST PICKETS To voice our remaining concerns with the Secrecy Bill the Right2Know Campaign will hold protest pickets across Gauteng in the first week of September...
Right2Know has called many times for MPs to push back against the securocrats who introduced the Secrecy Bill to bolster their own powers, and today’s deliberations suggest that this may be happening at last....
WHAT’S STILL WRONG WITH THE SECRECY BILL Despite many victories over the last two years, the Secrecy Bill (the Protection of State Information Bill) remains a threat to our democracy. While R2K’s impact on...
On Wednesday 28 August, the Protection of State Information Bill (the Secrecy Bill) enters the final stages of Parliamentary deliberation. A recent Parliamentary programme has the Secrecy Bill scheduled to be voted through the...
The article below was publised on line by the Politicsweb In the dying months of her tenure as Minister of Defence, Lindiwe Sisulu continuously refused to divulge the details and, more importantly, the costs of...
The articble below was published online by the IOL News. Despite a public consultation drive and a government-sponsored media blitz lauding the Protection of State Information Bill, 44 percent of South Africans believe it...
The article below was written by Caroline Stone and it was published on Constitutionally Speaking. Progress at last? When two Nobel Laureates, an eminent constitutional lawyer and the Secretary General of COSATU (South Africa’s largest...
