Category: Campaign Updates
After a Week of Action to protest the Protection of Information Bill (the Secrecy Bill), the Right2Know Campaign has emerged as a vibrant campaign with significant influence in the public discourse. This rapid growth has raised a number...
This report on the Right2Know Week of Action appeared in Voice of America: “More than 400 organizations and 10,000 individuals in South Africa have banded together in a campaign against a proposed law that...
Associate law professor Richard Calland used his latest column to write about Right2Know and the changing tides in South Africa’s democracy: “Something is going on. Something potentially very remarkable, and very significant, is happening...
Journalist Issa Sikiti da Silva attended our Gauteng launch: “The launch, well-attended by the members of the public from all walks of life, looks at strengthening civil society in its battle against the government,...
The Mail & Guardian Online reported back on our Cape Town launch: “Civil society organisations are willing to take the fight over the proposed Protection of Information Bill, currently before Parliament, all the way...
Check out the Business Day report on the launch of our campaign: “More than 180 civil organisations and individuals will today announce a major campaign and a week of protest against the Protection of...
The Right2Know Campaign was officially launched at St Georges Cathedral in Cape Town on 31 August 2010. Read our Founding Statement: Stop the Secrecy Bill1 Let the Truth Be Told!