'National Key Points' Archives

The recent decision by the Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa, to review the constitutionality of the National Key Points Act is both welcome and long overdue. The Act, a relic of the apartheid era, contains wide secrecy provisions that contradict the spirit of openness that our Constitution demands. Its anti-gathering provisions have been employed throughout …

There are at least 182 National Key Points in South Africa, but nobody knows what they are. YOU can help us build a partial list, though. If you have any knowledge of a building that has been identified as a National Key Point, please submit the information below. We are looking for information that is …

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 …

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 acting Minister of Police, Dr Siyabonga Cwele, has upheld the SAPS decision to refuse to release a list of National Key Points. This comes months after SAPS original refused to release the information, after R2K launched a request using the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA). When the police refused our request, we appealed …

The Minister of Police has missed the deadline (Thursday 28 February) to respond to the Right2Know Campaign’s information access request for a list of South Africa’s National Key Points. This is despite R2K’s granting of an additional 30-days extension after the legal deadline had lapsed. His failure to respond indicates a blatant disregard for the …

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 …