STARLINK: WHY ELON MUSK IS BEEFING WITH SOUTH AFRICA

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has repeatedly peddled disinformation about South Africa's alleged anti-white discrimination and the unfounded claim of a 'white g*nocide,' influencing US President Donald Trump's decision to cut aid to South Africa and re-settling the African country's white settlers in the US. 

To make sense of the vitriol, South African comedian Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah on X) argued in this clip from his podcast that one should follow the money. 

Musk's satellite internet company, Starlink, has faced challenges in South Africa due to the country's Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) policy, which requires that historically marginalised groups hold at least 30 per cent of a company's shares in certain sectors as part of efforts to provide redress to the lingering effects of apartheid-era social and economic exclusion.

More than 30 years after apartheid's end, white people make up only 7.3 per cent of the population but own 72 per cent of private farmland in what the World Bank has called the most unequal country. The apartheid regime systematically excluded the Black majority in South Africa from national development through initiatives like land dispossession and job reservations that locked Black people into cheap labour. 

Do you agree with Noah's take on why Musk carries a vendetta against South Africa? 

Video credit: @whatnowpodcast on IG