R2K Gauteng statement on situation in Thembelihle
Thembelihle is burning. One person is dead and at least three are wounded. Sixteen are in jail. The community’s voice is not being heard! All of this is the result of the community’s protest...
Category: Campaign Updates
R2K Western Cape Statement: IT’S TIME FOR GOVERNMENT TO INVEST IN OUR DEMOCRACY
For too many years our government’s national budget has reflected a commitment to conservative economic policies that gives tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations in the hope that they will create jobs and...
R2K statement on ‘Spy Cables’ reports
R2K notes the announcement that Al Jazeera News and the Guardian newspaper will publish a series of reports drawn from leaked documents that detail backroom dealings and discussions between various intelligence agencies across the...
Take back parliament for the people, declares R2K
This article below was published by GroundUp: 20 February 2015 – Daneel Knoetze Members and supporters of the Right2Know campaign rallied in the Cape Town CBD yesterday and vowed to take back Parliament for the South...
Signal jamming and other worrying signs
This article below was published by The Star: February 17 2015 at 07:56am Parliament must take immediate steps to ensure that Thursday’s heavy-handed securocratic tactics are not repeated, write Micah Reddy and Murray Hunter. Parliament belongs...
MASS MEETING: Defend Democracy! Hands Off Parliament!
The Right2Know Campaign invites everyone concerned by the recent attacks on democracy in parliament to a candle light vigil on Thursday 19 February at 18h00 in the Central Methodist Church,Longmarket Street, Cape Town. We call on the...
Statement: R2K and ODAC join in urgent legal action against Parliament!
The Right2Know Campaign and the Open Democracy Advice Centre will be among the bodies bringing an urgent application in the Cape High Court on Tuesday to get an interim order to interdict Parliament from...
Statement: R2K Campaign Call to Defend Parliament from the Securocrats!
The Right2Know Campaign condemns the use of the military to surround the Parliament, the use of security (allegedly the police) to suppress dissenting voices inside the Parliamentary Chamber, and the jamming of internet and...
Statement: R2K Campaign supports MVC legal challenge: Voters have a right to know who funds political parties!
R2K supports the Constitutional Court case brought by My Vote Counts (MVC) to challenge Parliament to pass a law to require political parties to disclose their funders. The case, which will be heard on...
Statement: HONOUR ANDRE BRINK: SCRAP THE SECRECY BILL!
The Right2Know Campaign is saddened by the sudden death of Andre Brink, one of South Africa’s great literary figures. We will always remember Brink’s contribution to the fight against the draconian Secrecy Bill. At...
