Fact Check: Has Elon Musk Been Banned from Operating Starlink in South Africa Because He's White?
It was a bombshell statement from Elon Musk during a Q&A last week: He can’t get a license to operate his Starlink satellite internet service in South Africa, his native country, “because I’m not black.”
And, indeed, news reports that came out earlier that day stated that the current government of South Africa was going to bend the rules for him so that Starlink service can reach there — but also to curry favor with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration after a testy meeting in the Oval Office between Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa last week.
Leaving aside the allegations made in the meeting between Trump and Ramaphosa — in which Trump implied there was “persecution or genocide going on” in South Africa as the majority-black nation increasingly pressures the country’s white minority economically — the fact-check question remains: Is Musk banned from owning a company in South Africa “because I’m not black”?
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