Chivayo a flamboyant businessman has been implicated in multiple scandals including a $173 million solar tender for which his company Intratrek built only a shed and a contract to purchase ballot papers for the 2023 elections from South African firm Ren-Form (AC Vol 65 No 12 Elon Musk's Harare network & Dispatches 29/10/24 Opposition cries foul over elections contract to firm in graft probe)...
South African-born figures including billionaire Elon Musk tech investor Peter Thiel journalist Joel Pollak and Hudson Institute analyst Joshua Meservey have also amplified criticism of Pretoria's policies...
Elon Musk: The world's richest man and founder of SpaceX and its subsidiary Starlink Musk is also Chief Executive of Tesla founder and owner of Neuralink and owner of X...
A founder of successful tech companies he was founding chief operating officer of PayPal – alongside Elon Musk and Peter Thiel – and later co-hosted the All-In podcast...
Rupert also knows and gets on with his fellow South African billionaire Elon Musk whose commercial grievances have led the Trump administration's charge against Ramaphosa's government...
Echoing the Mnangagwa's courting of the United States administration Mutsvangwa compared Tagwirei's role to Elon Musk working for President Donald Trump...
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The losses for African economies caused by lower access to the US market are reckoned to be far greater than those caused by the winding down of US Agency for International Development (USAID) under Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Dispatches 28/1/25 Rubio deals hammer blow to US aid)...
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Much less reported was Rasool's earlier progress in negotiating a deal with US officials to allow Elon Musk to operate Starlink in South Africa without adhering to the equity–share provisions of the Black Economic Empowerment law...
Yet there is little evidence to support the claim – aside from Elon Musk Trump's confidant retweeting posts by Mario Nawfal...
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Blame has also been flung at Elon Musk the Tesla boss who is now leading Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency...
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Elon Musk the South African-born Tesla Chief Executive and advisor to Trump is playing a significant role in foreign policy...
It would be a much more coordinated administration than the first Trump term he said but there would still be plenty of contradictions: ‘People ask how it will balance its backing for oil and gas exploration with support for Elon Musk and Electric Vehicles – the answer is it will do both and keep its competitors off balance...