Elon Musk got rejected by Netscape. He walked into the lobby, was too shy to talk to anyone, and walked out. Never got the job.
At his first company Zip2, the board demoted him. Twice. They refused to let him be CEO.
He got fired from PayPal as CEO while flying to his own honeymoon. The board voted him out mid air.
He almost died of malaria in 2000. Ten days in intensive care. Lost 45 pounds. A day from death.
His first child died at 10 weeks old.
His first rocket exploded. Falcon 1, flight one. Burned on the pad.
His second rocket exploded.
His third rocket exploded. The last of his money was nearly gone.
Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008. The closest he ever came to a nervous breakdown.
Both companies almost died on the same Christmas Eve.
He was sued by investors. Mocked by the people who built cars before him.
His childhood heroes, the astronauts who inspired him, testified against his company to Congress.
The Cybertruck window shattered on live stage in front of the world.
He overpaid for Twitter by his own admission and watched its value collapse.
He was beaten unconscious as a child and thrown down a flight of stairs.
He has said he goes to sleep alone and it kills him.
He failed in public, over and over, for thirty years.
He is the richest man in the history of the world.
The difference was never the absence of failure. It was the refusal to stop after it.
A boy from Pretoria, South Africa, has become the world's first trillionaire, but with an American citizenship and an American portfolio.
His success is a mirror that reflects South Africa's absolute failure.
Elon Musk's historic milestone proves that wealth, progress, and monumental breakthroughs are created through merit, relentless innovation, and visionary execution.
They are not created through bureaucratic gatekeeping, red tape, and ideological obsession. South African politicians hate him because his mere existence exposes their profound failure to build anything of lasting value.
Elon Musk's story is the absolute opposite of the South African story.
Had the environment allowed it, he could have built SpaceX in South Africa. Decades ago, the country possessed a first world military space and missile infrastructure.
Instead of being nurtured into a global commercial aerospace hub, it was dismantled and collapsed under decades of ANC mismanagement, state capture, and political patronage.
We cannot even talk about Elon Musk freely investing his billions back into South Africa. Despite being born in Pretoria, race based economic policies and restrictive BEE ownership mandates have historically locked out global builders who refuse to bend to political dictation.
The South African story has become a tragic tale of what could have been, tainted by toxic governance, race politics, and destructive economics.
We don’t hate the South African government enough!
R4.45 billion pension fund investment in allocated to 15 companies, gave returns of -100% not even a cent was accumulated from these investments 😳😳😳😳.
This 3-minute video is a masterclass.
Douglas Murray appeared on Piers Morgan Uncensored and delivered one of the clearest, most devastating explanations of the conflict with Hamas that has been heard on mainstream television
You allowed this to happen for too long. From taxi drivers deciding that e-hailing drivers, friends and relatives could not transport people, to this. Videos of non-state actors "enforcing" their jungle law on South African streets have been circulating for so long. These actors were proud of their "law enforcement" and actually recorded it. You and your government were spectators. It is a sign that you were absent or too scared to face the backlash should you act against South Africans breaking the law. It doesn't matter how valid grievances are, NO STATE should quietly watch a parallel state emerge, with non-state actors deciding who belongs snd who doesn't, who must live or die. Your government, led by you, did that.
Our Minister of Tourism @PatriciaDeLille is weak and lacks the leadership to drive good governance. She disgracefully dismissed a competent board @SouthAfrica late last year, which was dealing with this very issue. If they were still there, Ms Guliwe would have been held accountable by now.
This could've been South Africa now. Instead, these ANC cadres refused to connect schools if they were not given 30% for mahala. I'm also sick and tired of the constant outages with fibre because of vandalism by criminals thinking they're stealing copper. All this would end if we have Starlink!!!
The image of a president stashing cash in a couch speaks volumes.
It is clear what kind of cash cannot be kept in a bank. A president's money should be the safest in a bank. How dirty must that cash be if a powerful leader hides it in home furniture instead?
This cannot be the only time he has done this. It is just the first time the public found out.
If you pay attention, these corrupt ANC cadres act like mafia bosses.
They use laws and rules to pull off shady deals. Millions of rands go missing. They loot the country through illegal trade and toll fees.
South Africa is in a deep mess because of these corrupt politicians.
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