R2K to protest communication rates
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...
Tagged: Protection of Information Bill
Delivery issues dominate hearings
The following article was published online by the Sowetan. SERVICE delivery issues took centre stage during public hearings on the Protection of Information Bill in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria, yesterday.Instead of expressing their feelings...
Info bill could be destined for Concourt
The following article was published online by the Pretoria News The absence of a public-interest defence clause in the Protection of Information Bill means it is destined for a Constitutional Court challenge, where critics...
The Secrecy Bill still fails the Freedom Test!
Parliament wants us to accept a Secrecy Bill that’s only half bad – but the Bill is fundamentally flawed. One full year ago, on 31 August 2010, the Right2Know campaign launched as a broad-based...
Info bill a threat to media sources: DA
The following article was published online by Times Live. Despite promising reports of discussions in the past few days, this report shows that the roller coaster approach to the Secrecy Bill conitues: Opposition parties...
Kasrils under fire over Info Bill
The following article was published online by IOL News: Members of Parliament processing the Protection of Information Bill yesterday rubbished criticism of their work by former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils. Kasrils, who introduced the first...
ANC eases up on info bill prison sentences
The following article was published online by Times Live: The ANC has conceded that people who publish classified information that would “prejudice” the state should not be jailed for 20 years. The Protection of...
Relief for media on Info Bill
The following article was published online by The New Age: The ANC agreed on Tuesday to rewrite a clause in the Protection of Information Bill that had been deemed one of the biggest remaining...
Another View: We’re lost in the maze of the secrecy bil
The following article was published in the Times Live online The latest version of the Protection of Information Bill being discussed by the ad hoc parliamentary committee is looking more dangerous than ever. ...
ANTON HARBER: Editors in bubbles undermine free media
The following article was published in BusinessDay. SOME of our editors seem determined to be their own worst enemies. The Sowetan, still reeling from the ham-handed way it dealt with the Eric Miyeni controversy,...
