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EFF vows to stop Starlink from launching in South Africa - Elon Musk
South Africa-born billionaire Elon Musk has traded barbs with EFF leader Julius Malema

South Africa’s fourth-largest political party, which has long warred with billionaire Elon Musk, has warned it will “never allow” Musk’s Starlink satellite service to be launched in the country.

In an address to parliament on Friday, at the department of communications & digital technologies’ budget vote debate, EFF MP Sinawo Thambo said his party vehemently objected to plans to introduce equity equivalence investment programmes in the ICT sector.

Equity equivalents have been championed by the communications minister, the Democratic Alliance’s Solly Malatsi, who has insisted that proposed changes to…

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