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The acquittal of Andries Tatane’s murderers last week, the increased use of the National Key Points Act to deny gatherings, and President Zuma’s attack on our right to protest in his 2013 SONA do not bode well for our participatory democracy. The right to protest plays a critical function in ensuring a government and private …

The Right2Know Campaign held our third National Summit in Durban from 15-17 March 2013. Delegates assessed the progress made since the second National Summit (held in Johannesburg in March 2012) and the challenges and opportunities facing the campaign in the coming year, before electing our 2013/14 leadership and adopting a set of resolutions to guide …

The Right2Know Campaign expresses solidarity with NUMSA – who were denied the right to assemble on 27-28 February outside offices of the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) on the bounds that the NERSA Offices are a National Key Point. We reject unequivocally the use of the National Key Points Act as a basis to …

When GCIS announced that they would be responding to the Right2Know Campaign’s Secret State of the Nation report, we welcomed the possibility of a meaningful engagement with its empirically grounded contents, which confirm the worrying trend towards secrecy in South Africa today. It was thus with great disappointment that we read GCIS’s statement today, entitled ‘Government refutes Right2Know’s unfounded …

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 and daily lives – and plenty of opportunities to tackle it In yesterday’s State of the Nation Address, the President made …

On Tuesday, 20 November, the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) demanded the Right2Know Campaign pay a R130 fee, otherwise the JMPD refused to receive notice of R2K’s public gathering. R2K will hold a candlelight vigil protesting the Secrecy Bill at Constitution Hill on 29 November and with over 15 persons expected at the vigil, R2K …

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 massive people’s movement to fight for the free flow of information, tackling not just the Secrecy Bill but broader threats to …

RIGHT2KNOW DISCUSSION: “Secrecy in our Communities” FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER Time: 15H00 – 18H00 Speaker: Dale McKinnley (Independent writer, researcher, lecturer, activist) Venue: UKZN Howard College Campus MTB Hall From the government’s attempts to obscure excessive expenditure on the president’s Nkandla compound through the invocation of the apartheid-era National Key Points Act; through the eThekwini Municipality’s …

STATEMENT & DEMANDS FROM THE RIGHT2KNOW CAMPAIGN FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2012 INTERNATIONAL RIGHT TO KNOW DAY To the Office of the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa: Noting that 28 September 2012 marks the 10th anniversary of INTERNATIONAL RIGHT TO KNOW DAY we stand in solidarity with freedom of information campaigners around the globe, …

CSAAWU is a small union in the Robertson area in the Western Cape, fighting to highlight the plight of rural workers who speak out against dehumanising labour conditions. The right to speak out, and freedom of association, are anything but guaranteed for rural workers: there is an emerging pattern of victimisation as rural whistleblowers are …