ELON MUSK

 

Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, one of South Africa's capital cities. Musk is of British descent.His Pennsylvania Dutch mother is Maya musk, a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa. His father, Errol musk, is a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer who was a half-owner of a Zambian emerald  mine near Lake Tanganyika. Musk has a younger brother, Kimbal, and a younger sister, Tosca.

 

Musk's family was wealthy during his youth. His father was elected to the Pretoria City Council as a representative of the anti-apartheid Progressive Party , and his children shared their father's dislike of apartheid. His maternal grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was an adventurous American-born Canadian who took his family on record-breaking journeys to Africa and Australia in a single-engine Bellanca airplane. After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk chose to mostly live with his father. Musk regrets his decision and has become estranged from his father. He has a half sister and a half brother on his father's side.