This is an excerpt of R2K’s advisory on the right to take photos without police harassment. See more at r2k.org.za/filmthepolice The apartheid-era National Key Points Act makes it an offence to publish information about...
JOHANNESBURG – Members of the Right2Know (R2K) campaign say they’ve had enough of what they describe as unaffordable cellphone costs in South Africa. Scores of people marched through the streets of Sandton on Saturday...
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE GAUTENG RIGHT2KNOW CAMPAIGN: STOP CELLPHONE PROFITEERING! A march to demand free basic and affordable airtime & data for all! MARCH FOR YOUR RIGHT TO COMMUNICATE! Date Saturday 6...
The Irish owners of Independent News and Media South Africa have now approved the sale of the company to the Sekunjalo consortium bringing the deal one step closer to fruition. The Right2Know Campaign has written to the Competition...
Members of US Congress: We write as a coalition of civil society organizations from around the world to express our serious alarm regarding revelations of Internet and telephone communications surveillance of US and non-US...
Right2Know, the organisation behind the campaign against the Protection of State Information, or “Secrecy” Bill, recently demanded a “free basic amount of airtime and data” from South Africa’s mobile network operators as part of...
South Africans pay some of the most expensive rates in the world for cellphone and data charges. Now a civil society group is taking on the big cellphone companies. The Right2Know organisation says that...
SOUTH African mobile network operators Vodacom and MTN are the main culprits stifling the public’s right to communicate, with high airtime and data costs continuing to undermine the democratising potential of mobile networks, says...
CAPE TOWN – The Right2Know (R2K) Campaign is preparing to stage a protest march in Cape Town on Wednesday,calling for more affordable cellphone and internet rates. This is part of the campaign’s efforts to...
The Right 2 Know campaign are claiming that cellphone companies are making staggering profits on SMS’s and that South Africa “has the sixth highest mobile phone charges in the world”. Vodacom’s Richard Boorman says...
