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Trump’s son wants SA-born entrepreneur Elon Musk to create a new social media platform.Image: REUTERS/Kyle Grillot/File Photo
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Forget Twitter‚ Trump’s son just asked Elon Musk to develop an app his dad can use

Elon‚ can you help a boytjie out? US President Donald Trump may have had his Twitter account permanently suspended‚ but his son is already out here looking for an alternative to help his dad out. In a recent Instagram video‚ Donald Trump…

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Pretoria-born Elon Musk is worth a whopping R1.8-trillion.Image: Reuters/Tobias Schwarz
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Buddy, can you spare a billion? SA’s Elon Musk becomes world’s third-richest man

Next time SAA needs a few billion for its bottomless money pit, it could try asking one of SA’s most famous sons for help. Elon Musk has experience with defying gravity – this week his SpaceX rocket company delivered four astronauts to…

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying four astronauts on the first operational NASA commercial crew mission at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US November 15, 2020.Image: Reuters/ THOM BAUR
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‘One heck of a ride’: SpaceX launches astronauts into space

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately owned spacecraft. SpaceX’s newly designed…

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