Solly Malatsi's plan to bridge the digital divide in South Africa

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Good news for Starlink and smartphone prices in South Africa

South African Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi has a two-part plan to bridge the country's digital divide, which could be good news for international providers like SpaceX's Starlink.

In a column published in the Sunday Times, Malatsi said enabling both domestic and international businesses to offer affordable broadband in South Africa and reducing the cost of smart devices will be critical to achieving his goals.
 
"South Africa will lift the 9% luxury goods tax on smartphone imports under R2,500 from 1 April 2025."

F**koff man.
 
“One of my obsessions is looking at the declassification of smart devices as luxury items"

It's one of his obsessions guys.
So great thing will happen.
 
Malatsi added that he hopes South Africa’s communications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), will seize the opportunity.
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The minister is literally in charge of ICASA. Hope doesn't play into it. All he has to do is instruct ICASA to do something and then they must do it.
 
RaptorSA said:
"South Africa will lift the 9% luxury goods tax on smartphone imports under R2,500 from 1 April 2025."

F**koff man.
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Thats actually pretty good.

Now they just need to do the same for the cars, motorcycles, e-bikes under certain prices.
 
Solly you got a better chance of becoming the USA ambassador.
 
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