Elon Musk left South Africa aged 17 to seek his fortune in North America. Thirty-five years and $468 billion in net-worth later, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has come knocking for investments from Musk’s array of companies.
The two share a country of birth, but that’s not all. Musk has crossed into the political sphere as a leading adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, and he wants something from Ramaphosa: dilution of a local Black ownership requirement for his Starlink satellite network.
Ramaphosa and Musk have been in contact to discuss ways for the government to change the rules to allow Starlink’s high-speed Internet ...
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