Elon Musk warns about the United States going the same route as South Africa

Billionaire Elon Musk has warned that the United States is headed down the same path as Zimbabwe and South Africa if it continues on its current trajectory.

Musk is the world’s richest man and is behind some of the most innovative companies, including electric carmaker Tesla and rocket manufacturer SpaceX.

He was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria. He completed his schooling in South Africa before moving to Canada at the age of 17.

One of the reasons he left was his unwillingness to participate in the compulsory military service required of white males under the Apartheid regime.

He also viewed the United States as the land of opportunity for technology and entrepreneurship.

His relationship with South Africa remains a point of significant public interest, shaped by his upbringing during the final decades of Apartheid.

Over the last year, South Africa has become one of the most prominent countries regarding its relationship with the United States.

Significant diplomatic friction, ideological clashes, and economic threats have characterised the relationship under Donald Trump.

The tenure of the Trump administration has seen the partnership reach what many analysts call a “critical juncture” or “near collapse”.

The strained relationship includes the United States offering Afrikaners refugee status, expelling South Africa’s ambassador, and imposing significant tariffs on the country.

The United States has also halted significant portions of foreign aid to South Africa, including funding for PEPFAR, the HIV/AIDS relief program.

Elon Musk has been a prominent figure in the first few months of the Trump Administration and continues to comment on South Africa’s race laws.

Elon Musk’s warning about South Africa

Musk has been a vocal critic of South Africa’s race laws, especially as they prevent him from launching Starlink in the country.

He said Starlink cannot launch in South Africa because he is not black. This is even though he was born in the country.

“South Africa has now passed 142 laws forcing discrimination against anyone who is not black,” he said.

“The facts are there for anyone to observe. South Africa now has more anti-White laws than there were anti-Black laws under Apartheid.”

He added that he was extremely opposed to anti-black laws, but equally opposed to the laws against white people or other races, too.

“There should be a fair and even playing field,” he said as part of the debate about race laws on his platform X.

More recently, he has warned that the United States is heading the same way as Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Musk said it seems unfair that it is called structural racism that must be dismantled when whites rule the government in a majority white country.

This is in contrast to a majority black country like South Africa, where it is called colonialism and “white supremacy” when whites want basic representation and protection.

He also warned that the United States is headed to the same situation as Zimbabwe and South Africa.

“High civilisation existed for a brief flicker of a moment in Rhodesia, a few decades where the primordial darkness of the Stone Age was vanquished,” Will Tanner said.

“But then it returned, in the name of equality, and Zimbabwe is once again a ruin. The same happened in South Africa, over a somewhat longer timeline.”

“Centuries of hard work and immense effort are being erased so a few kleptocrats can steal and destroy all in the name of equality.”

“Now, the nation that once had a nuclear program doesn’t even have clean and reliable drinking water.”

Tanner said the same will happen in America if they let it. “Unfortunately, this is where America is headed,” Musk said in response to this post.