The president speaks to the tech billionaire, who is now part of Donald Trump’s inner circle, to discuss “distortions” created about SA.
President Cyril Ramaphosa this week engaged South African-born tech billionaire Elon Musk over the “misinformation” generated about the country.
“The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!” Musk then commented on Ramaphosa’s post on his social media platform X, saying: “Why do you have openly racist ownership laws?”
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