The Right2Know condemns in the strongest possible terms the unprecedented security clampdown in and around Parliament as part of the State of the Nation Address. On Tuesday evening the Presidency announced that Jacob Zuma...
This Op-Ed was published by the Daily Maverick: DALE T. MCKINLEY SCI-TECH 30 JAN 2017 10:50 (SOUTH AFRICA) We have become the victims of surveillance slavery. We are subject to privacy-stripping global responses to...
Supplementary Submission to SABC inquiry: Concerns of Communications Surveillance and State Security Abuses at the Public Broadcaster 16 January 2017 Download PDF submission here Following Mr Micah Reddy’s appearance before the Committee on...
Privacy issues in South Africa have a particular historical significance, given the apartheid state’s systemic violation of the privacy of the black majority and political dissidents in general. A significant part of the struggle...
R2K calls for David Mahlobo to be removed as State Security Minister It is long past time that State Security Minister David Mahlobo goes. This week the Minister was revealed to have an unexplained...
UPDATE: Shortly before 5pm on Thursday the Legal Resources Centre received a letter from the Chairperson of Parliament’s intelligence committee stating that the committee had reversed its decision and that candidates’ CVs would be published on Parliament’s...
R2K notes that Parliament has restarted the process of appointing the Inspector General of Intelligence, the civilian watchdog on South Africa’s state security structures. In the last few days Parliament has re-advertised the position,...
Today the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) handed down an important victory for transparency and the public’s right to an open Parliament. Setting aside an earlier judgement by the Western Cape High Court, the...
Tomorrow, 13th September, marks day two of the illegal surveillance case being heard at the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court against a former Crime Intelligence official. Officer Bongani Cele, is accused of giving false...
The Right2Know Campaign is appalled by reports that the State Security Agency is “vetting” delegates to this year’s International AIDS Conference. The conference will be held in Durban next week and about 18,000 delegates...
