{"id":86364,"date":"2025-08-21T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86364\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:06:18","slug":"south-africa-pushes-rule-review-that-would-ease-starlink-entry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86364\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Pushes Rule Review That Would Ease Starlink Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">South Africa is prioritizing a policy-review process that may result in Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/711339Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">SpaceX <\/a>and other satellite-internet companies being allowed to operate in Africa\u2019s largest economy without ceding ownership, the nation\u2019s telecoms minister said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies is assessing 19,000 public submissions on a proposal to amend the nation\u2019s Black-economic empowerment regulations. The aim is to determine whether info-tech companies can operate in the country using equity-equivalent programs, instead of a 30% Black-ownership requirement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa is prioritizing a policy-review process that may result in Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX and other satellite-internet companies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[5684,51329,49,48,23200,25082,2546,51328,2100,714,995,66,5685,306,61,51330],"class_list":["post-86364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-africa","tag-bayerische-motoren-werke-ag","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-ford-motor-co","tag-infrastructure","tag-johannesburg","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-regulation","tag-science","tag-south-africa","tag-space","tag-technology","tag-toyota-motor-corp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}