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After Trump's funding threat, South African president phones influential billionaire Musk

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke with Elon Musk a day after the new U.S. president promised to cut funding for South Africa over a land expropriation law.

Trump announced Sunday that he would stop financial assistance while investigating why South Africa was “confiscating land’s from some people, without saying who.

Musk, who grew up in South Africa , has long criticized the government in his homeland as being anti-white.

Ramaphosa held prior discussions with Musk over the possibility of him investing in South Africa , Magwenya said.

“His ( Musk ’s) particular issues were around Starlink, as well as the regulatory environment that regulates that sector.” “Starlink” doesn’t meet affirmative action criteria.

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