Right2Know Freedom Week 2014
In the run-up to the 2014 elections, the Right2Know campaign will again mark “Freedom Week” – 27 April (Freedom Day), 1 May (Worker’s Day) and 3 May (World Press Freedom Day) – in recognition...
Category: Whistleblowers
Whistleblower meeting, Soweto
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Publication: Empowering our Whistleblowers
In 2013 Right2Know brought together different civil society organisations who work on whistleblower issues to reflect on the state of whistleblowing in South Africa. Based on these reflections we commissioned the Open Democracy Advice Centre...
R2K Statement: UKZN must drop charges against students
The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has slapped four students with disciplinary charges (effectively accusing them of defamation) after they wrote an open letter to the Vice-Chancellor raising a range of concerns around the management...
Presenting R2K’s 2014 Whistleblower Calendar
The Right2Know Campaign presents the 2014 Whistleblower Calendar! Highlighting the stories of ordinary people who have blown the whistle on corruption, injustice and abuse of power across South Africa, this calendar aims to celebrate...
R2K Whistleblowers 2014: Kantha Padayachee
“The road to justice is a long, arduous and often lonely one, but the journey is worth undertaking.” Kantha Padayachee was suspended from her job in KZN’s department of health after she blew the...
R2K Whistleblowers 2014: Moses Tshake
“I am very sad. He was a good son to me” – David Tshake, father of Moses Tshake Moses Tshake, a senior auditor for the Free State’s agriculture department, died in May 2013 after...
R2K Whistleblowers 2014: CSAAWU workers
“It is an attack on our right to speak out and struggle for a better world.” – CSAAWU statement CSAAWU, a farming union in rural parts of the Western Cape, fought off a ‘defamation’...
R2K Whistleblowers 2014: Kate Painting
“… it is time for South Africans to reflect and speak out. I feel I have a duty to expose the truth” Last year attorney Kate Painting revealed that she had resigned from the...
R2K 2014 Whistleblowers: Segomoco Sibambato
Segomoco Sibambato, a former manager at the Transport, Education and Training Authority, was fired after raising concerns that the CEO had flouted procurement policies. The procurement of services from Pretoria-based IT firm Mondial was...
