Press statement dated 7 November 2025
Issued by Connie Mulder: Head: Solidarity Research Institute (SRI)
Solidarity is planning an all-out campaign during the G20 summit that is taking place in South Africa this month, despite superficial criticism from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s spokesperson about these campaign actions.
Vincent Magwenya yesterday responded to news that Solidarity will be rolling out a multifaceted campaign against the ANC’s racial dispensation in November by telling Netwerk24 that the campaigns are being led by “a tiny right-wing minority”.
He described the Solidarity campaigns as “unimportant” and “mindless”.
As part of the campaign to which Magwenya referred, Solidarity will take the following steps:
• A documentary titled RACE to the bottom will be launched and screened at a cinema in the Menlyn Shopping Centre in Pretoria on November 10.
• A series of large billboards will be placed on main routes to the G20 Summit depicting the SA government’s race madness.
• There will be follow-up actions on memorandums submitted to embassies of G20 member countries, calling for South Africa to be held accountable for its violation of the UN racial conventions. This includes a visit to Europe.
According to Connie Mulder, head of the Solidarity Research Institute (SRI), this reaction from the President’s spokesperson shows that the criticism of our campaign is hitting the right nerves in the government.
“Unfortunately, this is necessary. The eyes of the world are currently on South Africa and the South African government, whose actions are increasingly under suspicion worldwide.”
“The G20 summit is here, and cosmetic resurfacing of Gauteng’s main routes is not going to cover up the bigger cracks in our society. In addition to the municipal decline, there is still corruption, unemployment and poverty, and of course the fact that South Africa is the most racially regulated country in the world,” says Mulder.
Solidarity’s campaign action will focus particularly on this racial injustice, which has a significant impact on the labour market in the country, but also helps to further bring our economy to its knees.
According to Mulder, the ANC’s criticism of “unimportant” and “mindless” is to be expected from government officials who are complicit in creating a dispensation that has given rise to the abovementioned crises over three decades.
“Contrary to what government spokespersons say Solidarity’s campaign against the racial dispensation is not a yearning for apartheid. It is, in fact, a yearning for progress. Racial laws are currently preventing progress from taking place.
“In addition, there is a very long list of interest groups that share this view. This includes, among others, the World Bank and some of our most important trading partners – even China,” says Mulder.