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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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