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MKP rejects Starlink, threatens legal action


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South Africa has published a "proposed policy direction" that should allow Elon Musk's Starlink to sidestep the strict ownership requirements in the country's telecoms sector and launch in the country. Communications Minister Solly Malatsi YESTERDAY published  the changes that will allow the country's telecoms regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa - ICASA - to sidestep those strict ownership structures. According to reports, the government had been planning to offer Musk a workaround to the ownership rules ahead President Cyril Ramaphosa's visit to the White House.  For some reaction to the proposed policy direction Bongiwe Zwane spoke to Colleen Makhubela, an MP from the official opposition, the MKP and member of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies..

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