• TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Well, we can dig deep enough for the context at least. For anyone interested in the facts:

    Sir, that’s NOT true & you know it! It’s got nothing to do with your skin colour. Starlink is welcome to operate in South Africa provided there’s compliance with local laws," [Clayson] Monyela [Senior official of foreign affairs] wrote. “This is a global international trade & investment principle.” And later on in the article, “[There are] local Black Economic Empowerment rules that foreign-owned telecommunications licensees sell 30% of the equity in their local subsidiaries to historically disadvantaged groups.”

    And just to be clear it’s local subsidiaries not the entire Starlink business. He’s just upset that he’s being required to follow local laws, and hasn’t been able to find anyone to bribe into rewriting them for him.

    • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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      5 hours ago

      Well, of course he’s unwilling to sell any of even the local equity to a historically disadvantaged group. His family left the country specifically so that they wouldn’t be subject to these laws. What makes you think he’s any different from his Nazi and Apartheidist ancestry?