United States regulators have given approval for Elon Musk’s Neuralink to conduct clinical trials of brain chips on people. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink the green light for its first-in-human clinical trial. According to Reuters, this is a critical milestone for the company after it struggled to […]

South Africa-born billionaire Elon Musk has announced that he has hired a new Twitter CEO as his job title changes. The 51-year-old South Africa-born business mogul bought the social media platform in October for $44 billion, but vowed to find someone else to run the company in December after conducting a poll via his own […]

Elon Musk was responding to a Whatsapp user who claimed the app ‘secretly’ recorded them in their sleep – and they’re not alone. South African-born billionaire Elon Musk is definitely not a fan of fellow tech titan Mark Zuckerberg and his Whatsapp platform. It comes after a Whatsapp user claimed that the app secretly records […]

SA-born billionaire Elon Musk continues to deny that his father owned an emerald mine in Zambia, saying he requires financial support. Errol Musk weighs in on son Elon’s safety fears. Images GIANLUIGI GUERCIAAFP and PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP. South African-born billionaire Elon Musk denies the existence of his father Errol Musk’s alleged emerald mine in Zambia and revealed that […]

South African expat and international entrepreneur Elon Musk joined US talk show host Bill Maher on Friday for a spirited Real Time interview. Watch the 20-minute conversation below. During the interview Musk talks about ‘woke mind virus’, argues that he’s a moderate and not a conservative (with proof being he’s done so much to help […]

Elon Musk’s SpaceX company’s new rocket, Starship, exploded on its maiden flight on Thursday. FOR THE LATEST ELON MUSK NEWS VISIT THE SAPEOPLE WEBSITE No-one was hurt in the un-crewed test that lifted off from Texas’ east coast on Thursday morning local time. After around three minutes into the flight, the rocket – the biggest ever […]

SA-born billionaire Elon Musk’s mom, Maye revealed that she craved boerewors and pap while in South Africa this week. Elon Musk with sister Tosca, mom Maye and brother Kimbal. Images via Instagram @toscamusk. Model and dietician Maye Musk, revealed that she was craving boerewors and pap while in South Africa to accept her honorary PhD in […]

The ANC is blocking South African expat Elon Musk’s Starlink in South Africa with its “laughable” demands, says Dianne Kohler Barnard, DA Shadow Minister of Communications. Barnard says that in a written response received from the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, the ANC, in no uncertain terms, declared that South Africans will never receive free […]

Comedian Chris Rock (58), who was sensationally slapped in the face at the last Oscar ceremony by actor Will Smith, has ‘slapped back’, almost a year later. They say revenge is a dish best served cold, and Chris appears to have taken it to heart, delivering his response in a live Netflix stream this weekend […]

From a personal net worth point of view, South Africa-born Twitter owner Elon Musk won’t look back on 2022 with much fondness. However! ALSO READ | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A MATRIC STUDENT: CAN YOU ANSWER THESE MATHS QUESTIONS? This year has gotten off to a much, much better start for the 51-year-old from Pretoria. FOR MORE […]

South African born and raised entrepreneur, Elon Musk, has officially broken the Guinness World Record, for the “largest loss of personal fortune” in history! Guinness World Record says: “He has lost approximately $182 billion since November 2021, as estimated by Forbes, although other sources suggest that it could actually be closer to $200 billion. “Although […]

South African born and raised Elon Musk, who recently acquired social media platform, Twitter, and laid off almost half the staff, has sent an email to those remaining outlining his vision for Twitter 2.0. In his email, sent at midnight, Musk says that his vision is “extremely hardcore” and will require long hours (80 hour […]

The South African born and raised business magnate and new owner of Twitter Elon Musk revealed a while ago that he is autistic. Musk, the wealthiest person in the world, is autistic. Musk, a fellow of the prestigious Royal Society and Time’s 2021 Person of the Year, is autistic. One of the most famous people […]

The richest man in the world, who was born and raised in South Africa, Elon Musk, has entered the Twitter HQ building. “Let that sink in,” he quipped on Twitter yesterday, along with a video showing the historic moment that he took over the social media platform. Today – with good old-fashioned SA humour – […]

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has said he can no longer indefinitely pay for the critical satellite services in the Ukraine, which his company SpaceX has been funding, at a cost of $80-million so far. He has allegedly asked the Pentagon to start helping to fund the service. Fans of Musk, who was born […]

(Reuters) – The world’s richest man, Elon Musk who was born and brought up in South Africa, has scented a new opportunity to capitalise on quirky products, launching a perfume called “Burnt Hair” that  sold 10,000 bottles to earn a million dollars in just a few hours. By the time Musk went to sleep on […]

South African expat and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has had a change of heart and is now planning to go ahead with his original $44-billion offer to take Twitter Inc private, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, potentially ending the bitter feud between the Tesla chief and the social media company. And allowing Musk […]

(Reuters) – South African born and raised Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world’s richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement, including not divulging just how many bots there are. […]

Florida governor Ron DeSantis says he welcomes South African expat Elon Musk’s support, quipping « I welcome support from African-Americans. What can I say? » (Followed by a smirk.) Musk, who was born and brought up in South Africa, but moved to Canada and then the US after school, holds three nationalities – South African, […]

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden compared Tesla unfavorably to Ford on Friday, while sarcastically wishing Chief Executive Elon Musk “lots of luck” on his “trip to the moon” after the billionaire expressed reservations about the economy. By Andrea Shalal and Trevor Hunnicutt Musk wrote in an email to executives that he has […]

Vangelis, the Greek composer whose rousing electronic theme music for the Oscar-winning 1981 film “Chariots of Fire” became one of the most loved movie scores around the world – including in South Africa where it was very popular – has died at the age of 79. Quoting Horatio from Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’, South African expat Elon […]

(Reuters) – Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that his $44-billion cash deal for Twitter Inc was “temporarily on hold” while he waits for the social media company to provide data on the proportion of its fake accounts. By Greg Roumeliotis and Sheila Dang. Since 2013, Twitter has downplayed the spread of fake accounts on its […]

Tesla CEO and new Twitter owner Elon Musk took part in a live stream Tesla / Twitter event on Sunday 8 May, together with Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood and Jack Dorsey who is co-founder and former CEO of Twitter and also founder of financial payments company Block, Inc. Tesla says on its YouTube page: […]

The Daily Show host, South African expat Trevor Noah, has voiced the concern of many about the ‘billionaire games’ that the super wealthy, like fellow SA expat Elon Musk, play with the stock market. Watch below. The Daily Show, which has almost 10 million subscribers on YouTube, said “Trevor’s no finance expert, but the details […]

A New York Times article has caused fury amongst many South Africans calling it a “BS hack piece with no facts”. Sadly, many of those pointing out the errors, are actually proving the journalist right – that many white South Africans were “shrouded in misinformation” and oblivious to what was happening right in front of […]