Snopes reached out to ICASA to ask whether Starlink had submitted an application in the last few months or if the South ...

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 ...

South Africa's Communications Minister Solly Malatsi said on Tuesday that his proposed draft policy that recognises ...

A proposed regulatory change would allow Elon Musk’s satellite company and others like it to get a license without having to ...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk was born in South Africa but emigrated at age 17 and eventually became a naturalized U.S. citizen.

South Africa’s government is proposing a workaround to Black ownership requirements that will pave the way for Starlink and ...

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 ...

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) says it has taken steps to address the allegedly unlawful use of Starlink in the country. Starlink is a low-Earth orbit satellite ...

“Even though I was born in South Africa, the government will not grant Starlink a licence to operate simply because I am not black,” Musk posted on Twitter/X two weeks ago. “This is a ...