Zimbabwe Arrests Cabinet Minister’s Son for Using StarLink Services
- African country asked Musk’s company to cut off all terminals
- Mutsvangwa’s parents senior members of ruling party, cabinet
A Starlink satellite terminal.
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A Zimbabwe politician’s son was arrested on charges of illegally possessing a StarLink terminal, a sign of the risks in countries where the SpaceX technology isn’t licensed.
Neville Mutsvangwa, the son of of women’s affairs and community development minister Monica Mutsvangwa, appeared in a Harare court on Friday on charges of violating the postal and telecommunications act, the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe said in a social media post.