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.
@Heccles94 Dollars, not pounds, you ass. You get that wrong along with everything else. Many trillions of dollars via the UN and International aid agencies have gone down the drain of third world corrupt regimes and terrorist organisations who don't give a fuck for their own people.
@TomLondon6 Seeing you decided to use south Africa as an example, your point proves the opposite. SA now has in excess of 140 anti white race laws, rampant crime and corruption and a rapidly tanking economy. It's a failing, racist state.
@PeterBeinart Seeing you decided to use south Africa as an example, your point proves the opposite. SA now has in excess of 140 anti white race laws, rampant crime and corruption and a rapidly tanking economy. It's a failing, racist state - do you wish that on Israel?
@elonmusk@DrewPavlou But the mainstream media, including ABC, was quite happy to post video of a cop kneeling on George Floyd's neck. Ad nauseum. And look at the burning and looting and damage that caused.
@MarkDC44424252@Gideon_jacobs2@DOAgov_ZA Piss off, idiot, DUDE. She sent it to the originator accidently, and Steenhuizen has publicly acknowledged it. YOU'VE been had! Were you born stupid, or did you work hard to get there?