Private Office of President Jacob Zuma By email: presidentrsa@presidency.gov.za 7 July 2015 To the office of the President: We note a report on DefenceWeb.co.za that the SANDF deployment as part of “Operation Fiela” has...
We are outraged to learn that the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British spy agency, has spied on email communications of the Legal Resources Centre. This emerged on Monday in a ruling by...
**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...
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, 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...
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...
