Rally to demand INFO ACCESS NOW!
On Tuesday 24 May 2011, while our parliamentarians meet to finalise the Secrecy Bill, community organisations that are part of the Right2Know campaign will gather in Cape Town to demand access to information from...
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A better life for the few: the ministerial handbook uncovered
In April the Mail&Guardian was told that the Ministerial handbook is a classified document. This week on SACSIS.org.za, Dale McKinley of the Right2Know national working group writes a brilliant analysis of what’s in the...
Testimonies Against Secrecy – Demanding INFO ACCESS NOW!
The following article was published online by The Mail & Guardian The right to demand answers Despite a biting wind and a grey, sodden sky, the Mowbray town hall in Cape Town is overflowing....
Right2Know activists banned from Parliament
Right2Know activists banned from ParliamentNine activists from the Right2Know campaign have been barred from entering the Parliamentary precinct today. The R2K activists had intended to join other members of the public in monitoring a...
Help us draft the SA secrets list!
“What information should be made public to improve everyday life in South Africa?” Every day we meet ordinary South Africans who do not have access to information that they need, whether it’s city planners...
Parliamentarians to relaunch the Secrecy Bill committee
The Right2Know campaign has been alerted that a motion will come before the National Assembly on Thursday that will see the Protection of Information Bill (the Secrecy Bill) being dragged back into consideration. Parliamentarians...
Right2Know supports the fight for quality education
The Right2Know campaign fully endorses Equal Education’s memorandum of 21 March 2011, to be submitted to President Zuma and the Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga at a mass rally on Human Rights Day....
Time for Parliament to withdraw the Bill, consult the people
The crisis facing the Secrecy Bill has brought Parliament to a crossroads. Parliamentarians can either continue to waste their time and the public’s money to grapple with this disastrous Bill, or they can read...
Right2Know pumps up the volume
The Right2Know campaign added a new voice to organised civil society when it formally constituted itself at a summit in Cape Town last week, according to Glenda Daniels in the M&G. Non-governmental and community-based...
Campaign against secrecy is ready for action
Right2Know is ready for the coming fight, write Sithembile Mbete and Alison Tilley SO WHAT is the state of secrecy in SA? Is it winning? You might think so, given news over the past...
