The official radio station of South Africa’s last all-white enclave has been taken off the air by radio watchdog ICASA for broadcasting without a license.

Radio Club 100 broadcasts exclusively for the private white hamlet of Orania on the edge of the arid Karoo region.

The regulator said the decision to confiscate the station’s equipment and press legal action had nothing to do with its content but that Radio Club 100 had been broadcasting racist and right-wing views that could be offensive.

In the early 1990’s a group of white descendents of Dutch and French settlers bought an entire town with the dream of building a whites-only Afrikaner homeland. However the government has refused to grant it the autonomy it seeks.

Orania’s management said the station had repeatedly applied for a license and was merely holding tests, not officially broadcasting.

It denied charges of racism on the airwaves and said the station broadcast harmless news about birthdays and social events, not hard-nosed political commentary.