Solly Malatsi, communications and digital technologies minister. Minister Solly Malatsi says he has engaged several low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite providers, including Starlink, for insight-sharing purposes rather discussing individual licence applications. This, amid furore over alleged lobbying of Starlink, owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to get an operating licence in South Africa by Democratic Alliance (DA)…
Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi has hit back at parliament over the Starlink lobbying controversy, delivering a combative written rebuttal that names for the first time the facilitator of his only meeting with Elon Musk’s SpaceX – and pointedly cutting Tony Leon’s Resolve Communications out of the story. In a…
Former DA leader Tony Leon Tony Leon has personally rejected allegations that the public affairs firm he chairs, Resolve Communications, used its proximity to DA leaders to lobby government ministers improperly on behalf of private clients – among them Elon Musk’s Starlink – and signalled that the firm is weighing legal action over what it…
Pakistan, Somalia and Haiti are among 11 countries that have signed lobbying deals with Trump-linked figures, with many bartering key resources including minerals in exchange for humanitarian or military support Some of the world’s lowest-income and most aid-dependent nations are paying millions to lobbyists with ties to US President Donald Trump as the country halts…
