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Astronomers working with South Africa's SKA telescope are pushing authorities to ensure that any licensing agreement with ...
South Africa has denied accusations that a draft policy watering down Black ownership requirements for tech firms was ...
South Africa is not planning to water down its Black economic empowerment laws just to suit Elon Musk's Starlink, a minister ...
Snopes reached out to ICASA to ask whether Starlink had submitted an application in the last few months or if the South ...
South Africa’s communications regulator says an investigation in the Northern Cape led to the confiscation of Starlink ...
Satellite Internet service Starlink has started cutting off users in South Africa for using its roaming plans in an ...
South Africa's Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi sparked a heated argument over BEE rights.
The South African government has drawn heavy criticism for its proposal to loosen its Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) laws ...
Starlink, the satellite internet service developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has begun suspending service for South African ...
Mr. Musk, who was born in South Africa, has called the laws racist. “Starlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa, because I’m not black,” he posted on X in March. The announcement on ...
On March 7, 2025, Elon Musk, the South Africa-born tech billionaire who owns the space aeronautics company SpaceX and the social media platform X, claimed in a post that Starlink, the satellite ...