Before Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire and built an empire spanning rockets, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, and satellite technology, he was a teenager growing up in apartheid era South Africa with his eyes fixed on a future thousands of kilometres away.
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For years, a widely repeated claim suggested that Musk left South Africa in 1989 to avoid compulsory military service under the apartheid government. But his father, Errol Musk, has rejected that explanation, arguing that his son’s departure was driven by a different ambition, a desire to build his future in the United States and concerns about where South Africa was heading.
“He could have used that story, or somebody else may have used that story for Elon leaving South Africa,” Errol Musk said during an interview with Conversations with Lelethu.
“However, it is nonsense. It had nothing to do with that. It had nothing
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