There are very few people in the world who, by now, would not have heard of Elon Reeve Musk . That is a big deal for a 54-year-old man who was born in Pretoria, in Transvaal Province, South Africa. To call him an African would, of course, be a joke.
He has no affinity with the continent or empathy for its people. Nor is he required to, in a strict sense. Elon was born to Maye Musk, a model and dietician, and Errol Musk, a South African maverick of Dutch ancestry who was an engineer, a pilot, a sailor as well as a property developer.
With a fortune now estimated at US$247 billion, Musk is one of the wealthiest men in the world. His body language towards money, even from his earliest unprepossessing beginnings, displayed a rather flippant lack of respect, with an unemotional focus purely on its utility and ‘errand’ value. Never afraid to gamble, never hesitant to take a risk, he is a man who has ‘lost some’, ‘won some’.
He also disdains creature comforts, including living in a decently luxurious house. Like a scenario from a science fiction movie, there are currently two astronauts orbiting in space who are stranded there, unable to return to earth. They were dispatched there by the American Space Agency (NASA) on a mission that was supposed to last for six weeks.
It has just been announced that, due to some worry about the safety of the NASA vessel that conveyed them on the mission for the return journey, it has been decided by NASA that the astronauts will spend t.