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South Africa Lawmakers Slam Starlink Plan Over ‘Back Door’ Entry

A Starlink satellite-internet communication system antenna and router.

Photographer: Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg

South Africa’s lawmakers challenged a plan to provide an alternative to Black ownership rules that will pave the way for Elon Musk’s Starlink to operate in Africa’s biggest economy.

“We are not going to accept a situation where our laws are going to be rewritten in Washington,” Sixolisa Gcilishe, a member of the leftist Economic Freedom Fighters, told a meeting on Tuesday in Cape Town.