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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'll keep correcting this when I see it. There was no Musk-owned, South African Apartheid emerald mine.

It was a mine in Zambia. A completely different exploited African nation. And Musk was only about to afford it because, as a wealthy white man in South Africa benefiting from Apartheid, he had a private plane that he traded for a share in the mine.

The "self-made" man got rich because of colonial exploitation in two African nations. Not just the one.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 10 points 4 months ago

"We were so poor we had to sell our private plane!"

[–] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Still, the world’s most successful African American. /s