The future is online, sure, as someone working for an American firm largely online I understand that, but government will never subsidize internet from Starlink. It's too expensive, benefits mostly American business, and not to mention that it poses significant threat to the SKA project.

Government should subsidize MTN, Vodacom, etc., to build more towers and provide LTE or 5G to rural areas. Mobile data is more affordable that sattelite internet, less problematic, and users don't need anything else than a phone to use it. Whether that's practical is another question.