Freedom Week 2015: Call to Action
UPDATE: SEE THE FREEDOM WEEK 2015 PROGRAMME HERE. The Right2Know campaign will again mark “Freedom Week” – 27 April (Freedom Day), 1 May (Worker’s Day) and 3 May (World Press Freedom Day) –...
R2K’s Tabloid: Your Right2Know (April 2015)
Our latest tabloid newspaper – Your Right2Know – issues a call to stand against xenophobia, blows the whistle on killings in Glebelands hostel and repression in Thembelihle, and breaks down R2K’s report on surveillance of...
Statement: R2K KZN strongly condemns the police’s action at Anti-Xenophobia March
The Right2Know KZN has been informed that the South African Police Public Order Unit is firing rubber bullets and water cannons at the people who are part of the Anti-Xenophobia March taking place at...
Statement: Thembelihle Crisis Committee to picket outside Lenasia Police Station
Thembelihle residents led by the Thembelihle Crisis Committee will be picketing opposite Lenasia Police Station against the undeclared, unofficial state of emergency experienced in the past few weeks in the area. The picket will...
Research: The Lived Costs of Communications
What is the real cost of communications for ordinary people? R2K, in collaboration with the LINK Centre at Wits, has conducted a study on the lived cost of communications in South Africa. For many...
Research: Alternatives to Privatised Telecommunication
In South Africa, as in much of the rest of the world, telecommunication services are concentrated in a handful of monopolistic private companies that reap massive profits at the expense of ordinary South Africans....
Statement: END THE DE FACTO STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THEMBELIHLE
The Thembelihle Crisis Committee, the United Front (UF), the Right2Know Campaign (R2K) and the Democratic Left Front call on all people of good conscience in South Africa to endorse the call for an end...
Activist Guide to Internet Access as a Right
R2K is proud to launch Expanding the Right to Communicate: an Activist Guide to Internet Access. For the past two years, the Right2Know Campaign has been building a public campaign for more democratic access to telecommunications....
2015 Leadership School overview
The evolution of the R2K Leadership School. Every year the R2K Leadership School design improves as we reflect on our experience. Our first Leadership School in December 2013 saw 60 activists from across the country...
Statement: Swaziland, Angola, SA and Zim: defend freedom of expression, stop criminalising dissent!
The Right2Know Campaign is deeply distressed that respected Swazi editor Bheki Makhubu and human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko have begun their second year in jail. The pair was sentenced for contempt of court to...
