WHEN: 11am to 1pm, WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2013 WHERE: ICASA offices, Victoria Maine Building, 71 Margaret Mncadi Avenue (formerly Victoria Embankment street), Durban Contact: Joanne Adams: 083 498 1583 or 031 260 2825 Why are...
The Right to Know Campaign says it remains concerned about the excessive power that State security agencies hold. It was reacting to the news that President Jacob Zuma had signed the General Intelligence Laws...
The Ministry of Communications is undertaking a ICT Policy Review and the Advisory Panel released a Framing Paper to kick off public consultation on the process. The Framing Paper outlines the principles that should underpin a Broadcasting and...
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...
