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9. read this article Financial Times
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 03:27 PM
Nov 7
https://archive.ph/20240920072546/https://www.ft.com/content/cfbfa1e8-d8f8-42b9-b74c-dae6cc6185a0#selection-1707.0-1707.52



Title:
Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid South Africa


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Elon Musk lived in apartheid South Africa until he was 17. David Sacks, the venture capitalist who has become a fundraiser for Donald Trump and a troll of Ukraine, left aged five, and grew up in a South African diaspora family in Tennessee. Peter Thiel spent years of childhood in South Africa and Namibia, where his father was involved in uranium mining as part of the apartheid regime’s clandestine drive to acquire nuclear weapons. And Paul Furber, an obscure South African software developer and tech journalist living near Johannesburg, has been identified by two teams of forensic linguists as the originator of the QAnon conspiracy, which helped shape Trump’s Maga movement. (Furber denies being “Q”.)



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