Familial relationships of Errol Musk

Errol Musk is a retired South African engineer, politician, and businessman. Beginning in the 2010s, Musk was featured in media documenting his relationships with family including his wives, children, and former stepdaughter.
Early life and career
Errol Musk was born in South Africa.
He attended Clapham High School, where he dated Maye Haldeman.
On 9 March 1972, Musk was elected as an independent to represent Sunnyside on the Pretoria City Council.
He became a member of the recently-formed Progressive Federal Party and ran as their nominee in the 1981 election. In 1983, his resignation from the party amid divisions over a constitutional referendum was front page news.
Musk studied electromechanical engineering at the University of Pretoria, worked as an electrical and mechanical engineering consultant and developed properties. In 1979, Musk and wife Maye divorced . Maye's book recalls that at the time of the divorce, he owned two homes, a yacht, a plane, five luxury cars, and a truck. A maid cooked dinners.
Maye recounts a time during their divorce when she sought refuge at a neighbor's home after Errol showed up with a knife looking for her. In 2017, Musk was interviewed by Neil Strauss of Rolling Stone for a profile of Elon titled "The Architect of Tomorrow". In that piece Errol recalled that he had once shot and killed "three out of five or six armed people" who had broken into his home in self-defense. Elon described his father Errol as a "terrible human being", adding: "Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done." They had two children. His partner, Jana Bezuidenhout, had been his stepdaughter from that marriage and had been four years old at the time Musk married her mother and became her step-father.
In February 2018, Musk made headlines when he referred to his wealth during Elon's teen years in an interview with Business Insider South Africa. Musk described having "so much money we couldn't even close our safe" and mentioned his emerald dealings. Snopes confirmed that Errol "at some point owned "a stake in an emerald mine" near Lake Tanganyika in Zambia".
In 2019, Musk's ex-wife Maye published her memoir, A Woman Makes a Plan, a book in which she characterized her marriage as abusive and alleged Errol had been violent. Musk has a total of seven children, according to People magazine in November 2022. On 1 August 2022, Musk appeared on The Kyle and Jackie O Show, an Australian radio show and made headlines for saying he was "not proud" of his son.
In April 2023, Musk described his emerald mine as an "under the table" operation. Musk was interviewed by author Walter Isaacson for his , which discussed Errol Musk at length. In June 2024, he gave an interview to The Sun tabloid in which he claimed Elon had upgraded his home security system.
Further reading
* Musk, Maye (31 December 2019) A Woman Makes a Plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success Penguin Random House
* Isaacson, Walter (12 September 2023) Elon Musk Simon and Schuster

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