Overview
- A Johannesburg mayoral committee member posted “Removed” with a video of workers taking down the M1 banner, and Gauteng’s premier later wrote “Gone.”
- Solidarity’s CEO Dirk Hermann says the union is consulting legal advisers on possible civil and criminal action over what it calls unlawful removal and censorship.
- The removed sign read “Welcome to the most race‑regulated country in the world” and had been placed on the M1 South between Smit Street and Empire Road.
- The Presidency’s spokesperson Vincent Magwenya labeled the campaign the work of a “tiny right‑wing minority” and described it as “unimportant and mindless.”
- Solidarity’s G20‑timed push continues with a documentary screening in Pretoria and planned engagement with G20 embassies to press its claims about government policy.