The Right2Know Campaign wishes to address recent comments in Parliament that seek to suggest that the outstanding problems with the Secrecy Bill are all but fixed. As captured in the Right2Know Campaign’s most recent...
PRESS STATEMENT from Gauteng Right2Know Campaign PARLIAMENTARIANS! DO THE RIGHT THING AND VOTE AGAINST SECRECY! To coincide with the opening of Parliament on 14th February, R2K Gauteng activists will stage a picket against the...
The Ten Myths About Myths about the Secrecy Bill While R2K members were making their way to the NCOP gallery in preparation for today’s vote, we got hold of a copy of a ‘briefing’...
The following article was published online by the Daily Maverick. Wednesday saw the beginning of the last round of Parliamentary deliberations on the controversial Protection of State Information Bill, from the ad hoc committee...
Yesterday (Wednesday 14 November) we witnessed a further postponement of the Secrecy Bill’s passage into law following the absence of opposition politicians at the afternoon’s meeting of the National Council of Provinces ad hoc committee. We call...
The Secrecy Bill is set to pass through the NCOP by the end of this month and the securocrats have dug in their heels. Yet across the country, we’ve seen the rise of a...
OPEN LETTER: A call to all political parties: Don’t rush the ‘Secrecy Bill’, and don’t rush it in secret. Address all seven unresolved problems. To: Members of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Protection...
The Right2Know campaign formally requested that the deadline to make written submissions on the Protection of State informaton Bill (the “Secrecy Bill”) be extended until all provincial hearings are concluded. The current deadline to...
The following article was published in the New York Times DEFENDERS of freedom in South Africa are deeply worried these days. The health of one of the world’s most celebrated democracies, which emerged after...
In his speech to the National Assembly on Wednesday, Minister of State Security Siyabonga Cwele reassures us that the Protection of State Information Bill (the Secrecy Bill) is now constitutional. However, we have not...
