Rights campaigners are up in arms over the ANC’s bid to ram the Protection of Information Bill, stripped of hard-won concessions, through Parliament.
The ANC says it can’t allow debate on the Protection of Information Bill to continue forever and has threatened to push ahead with a vote on the Bill.
Sticking points prevent committee from pushing legislation through in its current state
Communities speak out against state secrecy about matters that directly affect their lives, writes <b>Lynley Donnelly</b>.
In recent years the Ministerial Handbook has been held up as putting an official stamp on the spending habits of ministers.
The Right2Know campaign is compiling a list of South Africa’s top 10 secrets.
The UN’s Frank LaRue said in Johannesburg this week that there can be no democracy without the internet as well as no development.
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/ 16 February 2011
Parliament says will not hesitate to ensure the law takes its course should there be a repeat of Tuesday’s silent demonstration by Right2Know.
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/ 21 January 2011
Critics say that changes to the Protection of Information Bill do not go far enough.
Even in the euphoric dawn of democracy in 1994 there were fears of the lack of a credible opposition that could challenge the ANC.
Corné and Twakkie fight for your right to blissful ignorance.
Capetonians flocked to the streets on Wednesday to support the Right2Know campaign in a march to Parliament in protest over the proposed Protection
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/ 27 October 2010
The Right2Know campaign rounds off a week of action against the Protection of Information Bill with marches in Durban and Cape Town.
The issue of media freedom moved squarely into the global limelight this week, with a steep drop in the country’s global press-freedom ranking.
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/ 22 October 2010
<strong>Richard Calland</strong> says: "Something potentially very remarkable, and very significant, is happening to civil society in South Africa"
If the march to commemorate Black Wednesday was anything to go by, South Africans are still in the dark about the Protection of Information Bill.
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/ 19 October 2010
Hundreds of people participated in a march through Johannesburg on Tuesday to commemorate Media Freedom Day.
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/ 15 September 2010
The proposed Protection of Information Bill may well come back to haunt the state further down the line, civil society organisations have warned.
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/ 15 September 2010
The Protection of Information Bill currently in Parliament will set SA back in terms of freedom of information, an AU special rapporteur says.
More than 200 South African and international civil society organisations got together recently to launch the Right2Know Campaign.
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/ 1 September 2010
amaBhungane, a founder member of the Right2Know Campaign, participated on August 31 in the launch of the campaign’s Stop the Secrecy Bill statement.
Civil society organisations are willing to take the fight over the proposed Protection of Information Bill all the way to the Constitutional Court.
From Nadine Gordimer to Pieter Dirk Uys — prominent South Africans are coming out in support of amaBhungane’s Right2know campaign.