Biography
Errol Musk is a South African retired politician, electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer who once co-owned a Zambian emerald mine near Lake Tanganyika.
He is the father of business magnate and billionaire Elon Musk, restaurateur Kimbal Musk, and filmmaker Tosca Musk. He was married to Maye Musk and also to Heide Musk (née Bezuidenhout), with whom he has two children, Alexandra Musk and Rose Musk.
Career and investments
Musk worked as a pilot, a sailor, an electrical engineer, a mechanical engineer, a consultant, and a property developer, before retiring early.
He was the part-owner of an emerald mine on Lake Tanganyika in Zambia that he bought for £40,000, funded by selling an airplane for £80,000. In a 2018 interview with Business Insider, Musk stated that as a result of the emerald mine "we had so much money we couldn't even close our safe." In November 2022, Snopes debunked rumours linking the mine to slavery and apartheid, and linked to an article published in The New Yorker that referenced Musk's part ownership of the mine.
In an interview with The New York Times, he claims to have been elected to the Pretoria City Council in 1972 as a representative of the anti-apartheid Progressive Party.
Errol Musk's claims that he invested in his son Elon Musk's software company Zip2 have been rejected by Elon Musk.
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