Musk's dad arranges son's call with South African leader
South Africa's president needed to call Elon Musk on the evening of Feb. 4, 2025. The billionaire had publicly accused his post-apartheid government of anti-white racism, and now Musk's ally, US President Donald Trump, said he would cut more than $400 million in funding to the country. So Bejani Chauke, an adviser to Cyril Ramaphosa, the South African president, called Musk's father, Errol, a 78-year-old engineer who lives in a luxury double-story coastal villa a two-hour drive from Cape Town, Musk senior said. The trigger for the sudden flurry of backdoor diplomacy was a post on Feb. 2 by Trump who said - without citing evidence - that 'South Africa is confiscating land' and 'certain classes of people' were being treated 'very badly.'
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South Africa's president needed to call Elon Musk on the evening of Feb. 4, 2025. The billionaire had publicly accused his post-apartheid government of anti-white racism, and now Musk's ally, US President Donald Trump, said he would cut more than $400 million in funding to the country. So Bejani Chauke, an adviser to Cyril Ramaphosa, the South African president, called Musk's father, Errol, a 78-year-old engineer who lives in a luxury double-story coastal villa a two-hour drive from Cape Town, Musk senior said. The trigger for the sudden flurry of backdoor diplomacy was a post on Feb. 2 by Trump who said - without citing evidence - that 'South Africa is confiscating land' and 'certain classes of people' were being treated 'very badly.'
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00:00This is my daily exercise, climbing stairs.
00:19Last night I got a call from the PA of Mr Ramaphosa while I was having supper in a restaurant
00:29asking me if I can speak to Mr Ramaphosa.
00:33So without divulging things, I was asked if I can arrange a quick talk between Ramaphosa
00:43and Elo.
00:44Last night.
00:45So I said right, so I did.
00:50And then they spoke a few minutes later and it's on my phone.
00:54I can only imagine that Elo would have said, look, we want to help you, but you have to
01:14quit this, this war on white people in South Africa.
01:20So they sent me a communiqué, is that it?
01:31I imagine Elo would say, get rid of these rules, the laws, whatever, that discriminate
01:37against anybody, not just white people, just get with it, you know.
01:46So that's President Ramaphosa's daughter.
01:50He would be concerned about South Africa, you know, operating as nicely as it possibly
01:57can.
01:58I mean, I have gone out of my way for years to lift up black people.
02:10No black person has ever tried to lift me up.
02:13So how much more equality do you want?