SEASON 3: Free Media, Free Minds
R2K and Cape Town Community TV have produced the third 13 episode talk show exploring aspects of the right to know. View the episodes here.
Category: Campaign Updates
Canning of The Big Debate: R2K suspects political interference
This article was published by Jeanette Chabalala @City Press 24 October 2013 15:25 “Power to the people” and “Secrets kill democracy”. These were among the slogans supporters of the Right2Know campaign (R2K) displayed during...
No big debate: the SABC, censorship, and more censorship on Media Freedom Day
This article was published in The Daily Maverick on the 22 OCTOBER 2013 01:59 On Wednesday 17 October, two days before South Africans were due to commemorate National Media Freedom Day, the SABC pulled the popular...
Right2Know warns of political threat to press freedom
This article was published online by eNCA on 19 October 2013. Watch the video interview here. October 19, 1977 was a turning point in South African history. On Black Wednesday, as the day became known, the apartheid state...
Right2Know to protest SABC canning of ‘The Big Debate’
This article appeared on the TimesLive website. The Right2Know Campaign (R2K) will organise a protest at the SABC’s Johannesburg offices over the cancelling of current affairs talk show ‘The Big Debate’, it said. “In...
Right2know call to protest the SABC’s canning of the Big Debate show ahead of national Media Freedom Day
The Right2Know Campaign is outraged at the decision of the SABC to pull the independently produced current affairs talk show, ‘The Big Debate’, off air directly before the start of this show’s second season....
The Arms Deal: our right to know the truth
In mid-October the Seriti Commission of Inquiry starts its third month of hearings into the controversial R70-billion Arms Deal. The Right2Know Campaign calls for a fully transparent process to expose the alleged corruption and...
R2K KZN solidarity for ABM and residents of Cato Crest
R2K KZN solidarity for Abahlali baseMjondolo and residents of Cato Crest: WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTEST! All the people ask for is decent accommodation. They were promised this in 1994 but 19 years...
R2K Statement: Parliament’s rush and President’s silence makes Secrecy Bill ‘referral’ a sham
The Right2Know Campaign condemns Parliament’s plan to rush the Secrecy Bill back to the President in two days. These are the facts: The President has refused to sign the Bill in its current form,...
R2K welcomes ICASA communication costs cutting propsals
The Right2Know Campaign welcomes the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (ICASA) proposals to reduce cell phone wholesale call termination rates from the current 40c/minute to 20c/minute in March 2014 and 10c/minute by 2016....
