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...

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...

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...