Elon Musk said his company Starlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa because he is white in a social media post on Friday. Newsweek reached out to South Africa's Department of Trade ...

T he tussle between Starlink boss Elon Musk and South Africa over the company's failure to launch in the country stems from the nation's black empowerment laws, and could be one factor behind the ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa on Friday rejected a claim by multibillionaire Elon Musk that his Starlink satellite company could not operate in the country because he is not Black, and its ...

Ellipsis owner Dominic Cull says it will take up to 18 months for South Africa to finalise amendments that allow players like ...

“Starlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa, because I’m not black,” Musk, who was also born in South Africa before immigrating to Canada and later the U.S., said in a post on X.

In a potential workaround of South Africa’s Black-empowerment rules to gain an operating license, Starlink may invest about 2 ...

Last week, a member of South Africa’s second-largest governing party proposed a rule change that would allow companies like Starlink to get an exemption to South Africa’s economic-empowerment ...

South Africa has denied accusations that a draft policy watering down Black ownership requirements for tech firms was not proposed to benefit the Starlink business of white South African-born tech ...

South Africa has suspended talks over licensing SpaceX’s Starlink service in the country because of tensions with the Donald Trump administration in the US. A Bloomberg report says that “negotiators ...

Australia's unfinished Square Kilometre Array telescope is at risk of having its sensitive space observations distorted by ...