R2K is alarmed to learn about the theft of evidence involving Gengezi Mgidlana, Parliament’s secretary who has been suspended for possible financial mismanagement. According to the Sunday Times (16 July 2017), the stolen documents...
R2K has filed PAIA requests with the network operators for information about how often they hand over sensitive customer information Recently the Daily Maverick reported on a legal loophole that allows magistrates to authorise...
Minister of State Security David Mahlobo must give evidence or stop making bogus claims of a ‘regime change’ plot! Yesterday the Minister repeated his paranoid claims that South Africa’s democratic mobilisation is the result...
Today, 10 May 2017, South Africa’s human rights record will come under scrutiny at the United Nations Human Rights Council. This will include a review of South Africa’s surveillance policies, following a submission by...
R2K trusts South Africans to engage critically in the events surrounding the alleged “coup plotter” arrested by the Hawks on Wednesday. The evidence available does not suggest a credible threat to our constitutional democracy....
The Right2Know Campaign has published STOP THE SURVEILLANCE, an activist guide to communications surveillance in South Africa. Nearly everyone in South Africa knows about a law called “RICA” (the Regulation of Interception of Communications...
The Right2Know Campaign has published This article is an extract from Stop the Surveillance, a publication on communications surveillance in South Africa. Case Study 1: amaBhungane journalist bugged In 2015, it emerged that unknown...
“Any person caught in possession of, generating, sharing or passing on abusive, threatening, subversive or offensive telecommunication messages… that may be deemed to cause despondency, incite violence, threaten citizens and cause unrest, will be...
R2K has demanded that the University of Johannesburg comes clean about the contracts and services it has with private security firms. This comes after eNCA Checkpoint’s explosive report on the use of undercover private...
This article below was published by TimesLive: TMG Digital | 2017-02-08 13:17:04.0 The public deserves to be given reasons for the unprecedented security clampdown being planned for the parliamentary precinct during the State of...
