{"id":28416,"date":"2025-05-23T16:33:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28416"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:27:55","slug":"south-africa-sets-the-stage-for-starlink-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28416","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Sets the Stage for Starlink Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A proposed regulatory change would allow Elon Musk\u2019s satellite company and others like it to get a license without having to sell shares to Black South Africans.<\/p>\n

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The South African government moved one step closer to approving the use of Starlink in the country.<\/p>\n

Officials on Friday began a policy review process that could pave the way for Elon Musk to bring his satellite internet service into South Africa for the first time without having to sell shares to Black South Africans.<\/p>\n

South African law requires foreign companies to provide partial ownership to historically disadvantaged groups, which were prohibited from participating in many business opportunities during apartheid.<\/p>\n

The law is meant to redress the economic inequality that persists three decades after that brutal system of racial segregation came to an end. Mr. Musk, who was born in South Africa, has called the laws racist.<\/p>\n

\u201cStarlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa, because I\u2019m not black,\u201d he posted on X in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The announcement on Friday comes just two days after Mr. Musk attended a tense Oval Office meeting in which President Trump confronted President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa with false claims of mass killings of white farmers.<\/p>\n

White House officials have said that American companies should be exempted from the ownership requirement. Paving the way for Starlink approval and highlighting other business opportunities for Mr. Musk was seen as a strategy Mr. Ramaphosa might use in the White House to help reach a new trade deal and repair his country\u2019s icy relations with the United States.<\/p>\n

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A proposed regulatory change would allow Elon Musk\u2019s satellite company and others like it to get a license without having to sell shares to Black South Africans.The South African government moved one step closer to approving the use of Starlink in the country.Officials on Friday began a policy review process that could pave the way for Elon Musk to bring his satellite internet service into South Africa for the first time without having to sell shares to Black South Africans.South African law requires foreign companies to provide partial ownership to historically disadvantaged groups, which were prohibited from participating in many business opportunities during apartheid.The law is meant to redress the economic inequality that persists three decades after that brutal system of racial segregation came to an end. Mr. Musk, who was born in South Africa, has called the laws racist.\u201cStarlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa, because I\u2019m not black,\u201d he posted on X in March.The announcement on Friday comes just two days after Mr. Musk attended a tense Oval Office meeting in which President Trump confronted President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa with false claims of mass killings of white farmers.White House officials have said that American companies should be exempted from the ownership requirement. Paving the way for Starlink approval and highlighting other business opportunities for Mr. Musk was seen as a strategy Mr. Ramaphosa might use in the White House to help reach a new trade deal and repair his country\u2019s icy relations with the United States.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28418,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28419,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28416\/revisions\/28419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}