'Media Freedom' Archives

Tomorrow (3 May) the Right2Know Campaign will mark Press Freedom Day with protest at the SABC in Auckland Park, Johannesburg  as well as at the MTN & VODACOM regional offices in Century City, Cape Town and at the City Hall in Durban. The SABC protest –  a street carnival & protest party highlighting the suspecion that the SABC …

PROTEST PARTY & STREET CARNIVAL AT THE SABC ON WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY FRIDAY 03 MAY 2013 In celebration of World Press Freedom Day, and to highlight our concerns surrounding the abuse of the National Key Points Act, the Right2Know Campaign will hold a protest party & street carnival at the SABC (a national key point) on 03 May …

The Right2Know campaign will again mark South African “Freedom Week” – 27 April (Freedom Day), 1 May (Worker’s Day) and 3 May (World Press Freedom Day) – in recognition and celebration of the struggles and victories that all citizens, workers and journalists have fought for, to secure our collective ‘freedom’. Please RSVP and invite others …

Professor Jane Duncan (also a member of R2K) writes on media transformation in the New Age: Next week the industry representative body for the press, Print and Digital Media South Africa, will be holding public hearings into the state of press transformation. The hearings are being held as part of an introspective exercise by the …

The ICASA Amendment Bill tabled by the Minister of Communications in 2012 represents a threat to the independence for the telecommunications and broadcasting regulator. ICASA needs to systematically drive down telecommunication costs and create a broadcasting landscape conducive to the thriving of a host of diverse players including in particular public and community players. We acknowledge ICASA’s …

Dear R2Kers, friends and colleagues INVITE TO A WORKSHOP ON DIGITAL BROADCASTING – 29 OCTOBER 2012 South Africa is on the brink of moving to digital television. There are promises and pitfalls… Promises include new channels, new programmes and better picture quality. Pitfalls include the costs of rolling out the digital network, the cost to …

Dear community radio comrades and friends, The establishment and legalization of community radio in South Africa is a part of our national heritage that all freedom loving South Africans can be proud of. In commemorating Heritage Day the Right2Know Campaign salutes the thousands of South Africans who fought to free the airwaves and those who …

Mac Maharaj’s disingenuous attack on the Right2Know Campaign (Mail&Guardian 3 August 2012) ironically smacks of the very “self-interest” he accuses his critics of, showing an alarming disregard for the rights of whistleblowers in the process. R2K has been singled out here for condemning Mr Maharaj’s attempts to have amaBhungane journalists Sam Sole and Stefaans Brummer, …

It is with grave concern that we learn today of the formal criminal charges placed on M&G journalists Sam Sole, Stefaans Brummer and Nic Dawes. Through their investigations Brummer and Sole uncovered corrupt activities linked to the office of the presidential spokesperson Mr Mac Maharaj. Since then Mr Maharaj has chosen to press criminal charges …

The following article, written by Jane Duncan, appeared online ay allAfrica.com Recently the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications held the third in a series of public hearings on print media transformation. Many in the print media industry have been sceptical about the Committee’s motives in calling the sector to account on this issue, and understandably …