[Debate] CCS Seminar on 4 May: Right2Know to save SA democracy, journalism, research (Hunter, Nhau, Mngoma)

[Patrick Bond]

*University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society seminar, 4 May - 
all welcome

**CCS Seminar: The Secrecy Bill's threat to democracy, journalism and 
research
Speakers: Murray Hunter, Percy Nhau and Nosipho Mngoma (Right2Know)
Date: Friday 4 May 2012
Venue: CCS Seminar Room 602, Memorial Tower Building, Howard College
Time: 12:30-14:00

Topic: *How will academics and journalists be affected by the threat of 
a rising security state? Will this process derail democracy in South 
Africa? The Secrecy Bill, the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill, 
and the rising securocratic elite are addressed by Murray Hunter. Percy 
Nhau and Nosipho Mngoma address how to mobilise South Africans, 
especially in light of a similar experience in Zimbabwe.

*Speakers: *Murray Hunter is national coordinator of the Right2Know 
(R2K) campaign, having joined in 2010 as administrator. He was 
previously a writer, and studied anthropology and media at the 
University of Cape Town and London School of Oriental and African 
Studies. Percy Nhau and Nosipho Mngona are Visiting Scholars at the UKZN 
Centre for Civil Society, and are officers of R2K. Nhau is a Zimbabwean 
political refugee active in progressive social change mobilisation. 
Mngoma studied journalism at the Durban University of Technology and has 
written for various periodicals, including the /Mercury /and /Daily News./

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