In 1946 when Errol Musk was born, the father of Elon Musk was born into a very special privilege and wealth, out of reach from many in South Africa, and especially never-at-reach for the native black Africans. That was because of the institutional law of Apartheid which dehumanized blacks and took eighty percent of lands in South Africa away from the native black African majority, to benefit only the white Anglo minority who had remained on an extended vacation in South Africa.

So, Errol Musk and his family clan adventured and enriched themselves in Africa, prospering at the expense and sweat of the black Africans who were finding out through enactment of laws and plenty of laws that they were no longer citizens of their own lands and therefore were destined to serve the white occupiers for the rest of their lives. That was Apartheid, and a lot of people like Nelson Mandela went to jail because of these laws.

But no one went to jail or lived in fear like the blacks in the Musk family and extended families. In 1971, when Elon Reeve Musk was born, the Musk family and clan had become masters, speculators of wealth and opportunities in South Africa. So by rights and privilege acquired by the Musk family and clan in South Africa, Elon Musk was born with an excessive number of the proverbial silver spoons in his mouth before he would know how to use them.

When Elon Musk was six years old, history recorded an indelible event in South Africa. Steve Biko was killed while under detention by the Apartheid police. Steven Biko, who was fighting to get some life and dignity back from the laws that benefited Elon Musk and his family, but sent millions of black people to death or prison, was tortured and killed so that six years old Elon Musk and his mates could go to school, and live in luxury with nannies, servants, cooks and gardeners made up of the families of Steven Biko and millions of other faceless Africans oppressed by apartheid.

In 1981, Elon Musk turned 10 years old. Apartheid had yet continued to grow after Steven Biko's death. Nelson Mandela and thousands of black South Africans continued to languish in jail. Millions of black South Africans lived in Shanty towns, desert-like barren communities where they must obtain permissions to leave and make their daily living by gardening, watering farms and gardens for white South Africans, and cooking their sumptuous meals, washing the plates, clothes and houses, and responding to young Elon Musk whose parents were too busy living it up and lobbying for the good life that apartheid afforded them.

Yes, that 1981, Elon Musk bought a computer and began to learn how to code. One year later, he sold a game he developed for 500 dollars. That year in 1982, Nelson Mandela, Sisulu and their co Apartheid prisoners were moved to the dreadful Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison to continue sentences that many of them had been serving so many years before Elon Musk was born.

In the 70's when Elon Musk was forming his life and dreaming big, the dreams of other South Africans were being sniffed away from them by the cruelty of apartheid because of the dark colours of their skins.

Elon Musk has refused to open up a window to his mind during those crucial and formative years of his life. But if he is as smart as the world professes that he is, then he must have been a crucial observer and partaker in history at that crucial time, and therefore owes the world a glimpse to his opinions and participations during those apartheid years. His father claimed in later years that he began to be anti apartheid. But he never shared his works with Nelson Mandela and the ANC, the main party that apartheid South Africa was fighting against in those years.

In 1988 Elon Musk with the wealth and affluence of his South African roots and Canadian mother, moved to Canada and upped all the dreams that South Africa had afforded him to dream. He was so formed in his ways in Canada, that nothing distracted him from the visions he wanted to achieve for the world. Yes, Elon Musk toiled hard, and remained focused so that in 1995 when apartheid began to loose it's grips in South Africa, Elon Musk began to spread his wings in North America. He began the first of the ventures that today has turned him into the world's richest man with a value of over 200 billion dollars. But Musk has never been comfortable to dwell with his African roots.

When Elon Musk was seeking to be loved and accepted in the USA, he was dancing to the tunes of Obama and the Democratic party. But after getting what he wanted and becoming very rich, Elon Musk is working now to derail some of the gains Obama has made by being the first black president in the USA 

People sympathized with Elon Musk when he pretended to side with the Democrats in the USA because the Republicans made fun of Elon Musk, referring to him with disrespect as an African, a foreigner, his wealth notwithstanding. That used to make Elon Musk very shy in America.

Countering that with fury since he became the wealthiest man in the world, Elon Musk has bought the most popular social media platform in the world, declaring his support for extreme and right wing causes and conspiracies. But Elon Musk has kept quiet about his own participation in South African right wing causes which together with the acts of the Nazi's are considered as some of the world's most cruel and inhuman subjection of people to inhumane existence.

The simple showing that Elon Musk has now become bold enough to expose his taste as a far right sympathizer after he's become stinking rich, shows that he never changed from his childhood views and philosophies. Those same views and upbringing are the same that propelled him to become the richest man in the world by pushing his mind to the most extreme form that he could propel it to.

To the peculiar credit of Africa, and South Africa, Elon Musk must always owe up to the extent his involvement in Africa has prepared him to be such a brilliant mind, and in extension, the wealthiest man in the world. Then, if it is really true that the Musk family later became anti apartheid during their financial growth, what steps are they taking now that they are rich enough to make a difference in South Africa where generations of white injustice is so hard to correct now since South Africa has become free?

So, every report that Elon Musk is a very brilliant product of apartheid South Africa is true; so also is every assumption that despite what Africa has given to Elon Musk, he must be called to task when he has not aided to stop further pain and suffering in Africa, and when he joins to inflict more pains and disrespect to Africa.

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