Elon Musk
Elon Musk is a South African-born entrepreneur and business magnate who serves as chief executive of Tesla, the electric vehicle manufacturer, and SpaceX, the aerospace company. He is also owner of X (formerly Twitter), the social media platform he acquired in 2022. Musk holds citizenship in South Africa, Canada and the US, and is based in Texas. He co-founded PayPal in the late 1990s before founding SpaceX in 2002 and joining Tesla in 2004, where he became chief executive in 2008. His business interests span electric vehicles, battery storage, solar energy, space exploration, satellite internet through Starlink, neural technology through Neuralink, and tunnelling through The Boring Company. Musk is one of the world's wealthiest individuals, with his net worth closely tied to Tesla's share price. He recurs in business coverage for Tesla's expansion into new markets, SpaceX's launch contracts and satellite deployments, his public statements on technology and policy, and his influence on cryptocurrency and equity markets. Musk has advocated for sustainable energy, artificial intelligence regulation and human settlement of Mars. He studied physics and economics at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to California, where he briefly attended Stanford University before launching his first company, Zip2, in 1995.
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ActionSA files complaint with Public Protector against Tony Leon’s PR firm 
By: Thabi Shomolekae 2nd July 2026 ActionSA has escalated its fight against alleged political cronyism by lodging a formal complaint with the Public Protector’s Office, demanding an... →
ActionSA Lodges Public Protector Complaint Over Alleged State Capture-Esque Conduct by Tony Leon’s Resolve Communications
2nd July 2026 ActionSA has today lodged a formal complaint with the Public Protector's Office, requesting an official investigation into Resolve Communications,... →
Can South Africa afford to keep Starlink out?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 2nd June 2026 Achieving the country’s ambitious goal of 100% broadband access by 2030 could require a trade-off between politics and connectivity. Starlink – the... →
Musk row shows gap with Ramaphosa in South Africa equity rules
By: Bloomberg 15th April 2026 President Cyril Ramaphosa said billionaire Elon Musk could use equity-equivalence programmes to meet South Africa’s racial-equity rules and roll... →
International and domestic pressure against BEE and race-based policies accelerates
14th April 2026 Solidarity states that pressure against South Africa’s race-based policies, such as Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), is increasing rapidly – not... →
Good State and community-based development
By: Saliem Fakir 23rd January 2026 One must be guided by several precepts when considering community-based development. The first is that if you do not know something, do something.... →
Pop-star-turned-politician Bobi Wine urges Uganda aid freeze ahead of vote
By: Bloomberg 8th January 2026 Uganda’s main opposition leader called for a freeze on foreign funding for President Yoweri Museveni’s administration, saying international support... →
Lawmakers seek halt to easing rules for Starlink
By: Bloomberg 15th December 2025 The Parliamentary committee that oversees South Africa’s telecommunications industry called for the withdrawal of a policy directive that would... →
Most South Africans want empowerment policy ended, study finds
By: Bloomberg 11th December 2025 More than half of South Africans want a key policy aimed at addressing racial inequality scrapped and hiring and promotions to be merit-based,... →
News influencers are reshaping the media – insights from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa
28th November 2025 News creators and influencers have become increasingly important sources of news as more people turn to social media and video networks like... →
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