Category: Campaign Updates
As a way to carry forward the struggle aganist secrecy, 62 delegates representing civil society organisations, community groups and social movements from the three provinces gathered together for the Right2know Campaign’s first national summit....
The Right2Know (R2K) campaign wishes to express its support for the World Social Forum (WSF) Declaration of the Assembly on the Right to Communication, Dakar made on February 11, 2011. Information is power, but...
The Right2Know campaign has been alerted that a motion will come before the National Assembly on Thursday that will see the Protection of Information Bill (the Secrecy Bill) being dragged back into consideration. Parliamentarians...
The Right2Know campaign fully endorses Equal Education’s memorandum of 21 March 2011, to be submitted to President Zuma and the Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga at a mass rally on Human Rights Day....
The crisis facing the Secrecy Bill has brought Parliament to a crossroads. Parliamentarians can either continue to waste their time and the public’s money to grapple with this disastrous Bill, or they can read...
The Right2Know Campaign (R2K) is a nation-wide coalition of people and organisations campaigning for the rights to information and free expression. It was launched in August 2010 in opposition to the Protection of Information...
…not five people in masks! The Parliamentary Communication Services has issued a statement condemning the Right2Know’s behaviour as “particularly unseemly” and threatening to apply the “full might of the law” against our supporters. This...
On Tuesday 15 February 2011, a delegation of Right2Know Campaign supporters attended a sitting of the Parliamentary Committee handling the Protection of Information Bill where the Minister of State Security was expected to make...
[Update: news reports indicate Majavu has been re-added to the party’s distribution list.] The Right2Know campaign joins calls for the Democratic Alliance to lift its ban on Sowetan journalist Anna Majavu and condemns party...
The Right2Know campaign added a new voice to organised civil society when it formally constituted itself at a summit in Cape Town
last week, according to Glenda Daniels in the M&G. Non-governmental and community-based...