Echoing the Mnangagwa's courting of the United States administration Mutsvangwa compared Tagwirei's role to Elon Musk working for President Donald J Trump...
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The losses for African economies caused by lower access to the US market are reckoned to be far greater than those caused by the winding down of US Agency for International Development (USAID) under Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Dispatches 28/1/25 Rubio deals hammer blow to US aid)...
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Much less reported was Rasool's earlier progress in negotiating a deal with US officials to allow Elon Musk to operate Starlink in South Africa without adhering to the equity–share provisions of the Black Economic Empowerment law...
Yet there is little evidence to support the claim – aside from Elon Musk Trump's confidant retweeting posts by Mario Nawfal...
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Blame has also been flung at Elon Musk the Tesla boss who is now leading Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency...
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Elon Musk the South African-born Tesla Chief Executive and advisor to Trump is playing a significant role in foreign policy...
It would be a much more coordinated administration than the first Trump term he said but there would still be plenty of contradictions: ‘People ask how it will balance its backing for oil and gas exploration with support for Elon Musk and Electric Vehicles – the answer is it will do both and keep its competitors off balance...
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The company has also denied links with controversial Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo who has traded off his relationship with President Emmerson Mnangagwa (AC Vol 65 No 12 Elon Musk's Harare network & Vol 57 No 14 A close political race gets angrier)...
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Vol 65 No 18 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
' EV exports from China – including foreign brands such as Elon Musk's Tesla – have increased 160-fold from 2019 to 2023...
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has rewarded some familiar faces after approving the licensing of tech billionaire Elon Musk's Starlink system in Zimbabwe ‘through its sole and exclusive local partner IMC Communications (Pvt) Ltd'...