AfriForum praises power of public and international pressure as government proposes easing racial criteria for Starlink [SOUND]

# The civil rights organisation, AfriForum has welcomed the South African government’s proposal issued in the Government Gazette for the easing of racial criteria for satellite service companies, such as Starlink, as contained in the broad-based black economic empowerment licencing requirements. The organisation’s Ernst van Zyl says AfriForum has been a major player in the fight to remove the strict racialist barriers that are keeping Elon Musk’s Starlink out of South Africa: