# Multibillionaire Elon Musk claims his satellite internet company, Starlink, was given the opportunity to bribe its way to a telecoms licence in South Africa, by pretending a black person ran the company’s local entity. The country’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment policies require foreign-owned telecommunications licenses to sell 30-percent of the equity in their local subsidiaries to historically disadvantaged groups. In a series of posts on X, Musk claimed that Starlink is being denied an operating licence because he is not black. He added that he refused to be bribed based on principle.
Elon Musk claims Starlink was offered a bribe to launch in SA