'Secrecy Bill' Archives

Members of US Congress: We write as a coalition of civil society organizations from around the world to express our serious alarm regarding revelations of Internet and telephone communications surveillance of US and non-US citizens by the US government. We also wish to express our grave concern that US authorities may have made the data …

Tonight (Thursday 16 May) the Right2Know Campaign will be holding a vigil outside President Zuma’s Durban residence calling on him not to sign the Secrecy Bill into law. The vigil will take place form 6pm to 8pm outside the Presidents residence on Morningside Road. The Right2Know Campaign called on all freedom-loving South Africans and democrats across the …

JOHANNESBURG – The Right2Know Campaign said on Wednesday the translation of the Protection of State Information Bill (POSIB) into South Africa’s 11 official languages is expected to be finished by the end of the week. From there the so-called Secrecy Bill will land on President Jacob Zuma’s desk to be signed into law. The bill …

JOHANNESBURG – The Protection of State Information Bill is expected to land on President Jacob Zuma’s desk next week, the Right2Know Campaign revealed on Wednesday. The so-called Secrecy Bill recently got passed in Parliament and is one step closer from being signed into law. The proposed law has been in the making for several years …

Right2Know affiliated communities in the Vaal will hold a Secrecy Bill picket outside the Emfuleni Municipality: PRESIDENT ZUMA DO THE RIGHT THING! DON’T SIGN THE SECRECY BILL INTO LAW! SEND IT BACK TO PARLIAMENT OR TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT!  Date: Wednesday 7 May 2013 Time: 12h30 – 14h00 Venue: Emfuleni Municipality (Klasie Havenga Street, Frikkie Meyer Boulevard, Vanderbijlpark) …

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 …

Media, civil society organisations and opposition political have reacted with outrage at the passing of the controversial Protection of State Information Bill, otherwise known as the ‘secrecy bill’. They have confirmed that the next stop is the Constitutional Court. Most agree that while the bill that was passed last week was much improved from the …

Parliament has passed the Secrecy Bill (the Protection of State Information Bill) and now President Zuma must apply his mind in considering signing it into law. The Right2Know Campaign calls on all freedom-loving South Africans and democrats across the world to contact President Zuma and appeal to him to stop the Secrecy Act and either return the …

Pretoria – The ANC has rejected as an “act of desperation and posturing” a call by the DA to have another vote on the recently passed Protection of State Information Bill, also known as the Secrecy Bill. The official opposition made its request after ANC chief whip Mathole Motshekga blamed a “technical glitch” for being …

On Thursday, the Right2Know campaign, which has been the most outspoken civil society voice lobbying against the bill’s passing, held vigils outside Parliament and Luthuli House before Parliament’s afternoon plenary session commenced. It was hoping to send a last message to MPs that if the bill were passed, it would be greeted with an outcry. …