{"id":921490,"date":"2025-04-12T07:50:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T02:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=921490"},"modified":"2025-04-12T08:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T02:34:42","slug":"after-musks-criticism-south-africa-paves-way-for-starlinks-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/12\/after-musks-criticism-south-africa-paves-way-for-starlinks-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"After Musk&#8217;s criticism , South Africa paves way for Starlink&#8217;s entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has been vocal about his desire to see his country\u2019s wealthiest son, Elon Musk, invest some of his billions at home. <\/p>\n<p>But his overtures have been stymied by Musk\u2019s criticism of the South African government as racist. Musk has argued that a law requiring foreign firms to sell ownership stakes to Black people \u2014 or others who faced discrimination during apartheid \u2014 is discriminatory and prevents his satellite internet provider, Starlink, from operating there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has been vocal about his desire to see his country\u2019s wealthiest son, Elon Musk, invest some of his billions at home. But his overtures have been stymied by Musk\u2019s criticism of the South African government as racist. Musk has argued that a law requiring foreign firms to sell ownership stakes to Black people \u2014 or others who faced discrimination during apartheid \u2014 is discriminatory and prevents his satellite internet provider, Starlink, from operating there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}