AfriForum urges government to accept SpaceX offer to connect 5,000 rural schools [SOUND]

# AfriForum is urging the government to accept SpaceX’s offer to provide free internet access to five-thousand rural schools in South Africa. The organisation’s Louis Boshoff says the offer was made more than a year ago, on condition that Starlink, SpaceX’s internet service provider, is granted access to the local market. Boshoff accuses the government of refusing to relax ownership requirements, which include a provision for at least 30-percent black ownership of licensed companies: