Introduction: Addressing SA’s climate of secrecy The R2K Secret State of the Nation report shows that 2013 will be a critical year for the right to know, with signs of increasing secrecy in our politics...
After more than two years of intensive campaigning the Right2Know returns to our founding statement and concludes that – despite the many amendments we have secured – the Secrecy Bill still fails our Right2Know...
Right2Know has called many times for MPs to push back against the securocrats who introduced the Secrecy Bill to bolster their own powers, and today’s deliberations suggest that this may be happening at last....
WHAT’S STILL WRONG WITH THE SECRECY BILL Despite many victories over the last two years, the Secrecy Bill (the Protection of State Information Bill) remains a threat to our democracy. While R2K’s impact on...
The Right2Know campaign strongly condemns the actions of Dennis Dlomo, acting DG of State Security, as well as the broader efforts of the SSA to silence whistleblower Roberta Nation. Their actions, exposed by the...
The following article was published online by The Witness IN 1976 it was the young students who took to the streets to defy the apartheid government, yesterday it was the KwaZulu-Natal students who came...
R2K Gauteng Statement The Right2Know Campaign in Gauteng – whose members/activists attended both public hearings in Sharpeville and Mamelodi – strongly condemns the deeply flawed and highly partisan character of yesterday’s National Council of Provinces (NCOP)...
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 publishe online by Times Live. This is a place where 69 people lost their lives in the name of freedom. In fact, Sharpeville was a turning point in the fight...
The following article was published online by IOL News More than 800 people – including the public, NGOs, political party members and unions – filled the Rhoda Yende Hall in Sharpeville on Tuesday for...
