{"id":190285,"date":"2026-04-16T04:46:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/190285\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T04:46:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:46:46","slug":"elon-musk-spacex-push-to-change-black-ownership-rules-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/190285\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk, SpaceX Push to Change Black Ownership Rules in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global telecommunication companies operating in South Africa do so through partnerships with local businesses that are partly owned by Black citizens. That\u2019s to comply with equality rules that were instituted after the end of apartheid. SpaceX has spent the past year trying to get those rules changed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The company, which is seeking to offer its Starlink satellite internet service in South Africa, has been lobbying policymakers on the country\u2019s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment<\/a> (B-BBEE) rules, which require communications businesses to maintain at least 30% local Black ownership. Elon Musk has described the rules as \u201copenly racist\u201d and last year took his complaints to his social media platform<\/a>, X: \u201cStarlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa, because I\u2019m not black.\u201d This has made him a target of fury among people in his birth country, but it also appears to be working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Global telecommunication companies operating in South Africa do so through partnerships with local businesses that are partly owned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[52],"tags":[63,97417,8205,97416,27976,3110,11546,1716,2433,131,10622],"class_list":["post-190285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa","tag-africa","tag-businessweek","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-equality","tag-government","tag-policy","tag-regulation","tag-social-media","tag-south-africa","tag-white-house"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116412576139736528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}