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'''Errol Graham Musk''' is a South African retired electrical and mechanical engineering consultant, property developer, former part-owner of an emerald mine, and former politician. He is the father of business magnate ], restaurateur ], and filmmaker ]. He was married to ].


== Biography ==
Errol Musk was born in South Africa.<ref name=":02" /> His mother was British and his father was South African.<ref name=":02" /> His father, Walter Henry James Musk, was an army sergeant.<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last=Vance |first=Ashlee |title=Elon Musk: Tesla, Paypal, SpaceX: l'entrepreneur qui va changer le monde |publisher=Eyrolles |year=2017 |isbn=9782212594379 |pages=40 |language=pt |author-link=Ashlee Vance}}</ref>{{rp|40}}


In 1972, Musk was elected to the ] Council<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Eligon |first1=John |last2=Chutel |first2=Lynsey |date=2022-05-05 |title=Elon Musk Left a South Africa That Was Rife With Misinformation and White Privilege |language=en-US |work=] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/africa/elon-musk-south-africa.html |url-status=live |access-date=2023-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111015804/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/africa/elon-musk-south-africa.html |archive-date=11 November 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> to represent ].<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Vlismas |first=Michael |title=Elon Musk: Risking it All |publisher=]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JsduEAAAQBAJ |year=2022 |isbn=978-1776191857}}</ref>{{rp|52}} He became a member of the ] (PFP)<ref name=":8" />{{rp|52}} and ran as the PFP candidate in the 1981 election to represent Sunnyside.<ref name=":11">{{Cite thesis |last=Sussman |first=Gary |title=The referendum in F.W. de Klerk's war of manoeuvre: An historical institutionalist account of the 1992 referendum |date=2003 |degree=PhD |publisher=] |url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2776/1/U615725.pdf}}</ref>{{rp|225, fn 119}} He resigned from the PFP in 1983.<ref name=":11" />{{rp|225, fn 119}}

Musk worked as an electrical and mechanical engineering consultant and developed properties.<ref name=":02" /> He specialised in retail and office property development.<ref name=":9">{{Cite book |last=Ashlee |first=Vance |url= |title=Elon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future |title-link=Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future |publisher=] |year=2017 |isbn=9780062463289 |author-link=Ashlee Vance}}</ref>{{rp|27}}

In a 2018 interview with '']'', Musk referred to his wealth, including an emerald mine when his son Elon was a teenager.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wet |first=Phillip de |author-link=Phillip de Wet |date=23 February 2018 |title='We had so much money we couldn't even close our safe': Elon Musk's Dad tells BI about the family's insanely casual attitude to wealth |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-dad-tells-bi-about-the-familys-casual-attitude-to-wealth-2018-2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128160121/https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-dad-tells-bi-about-the-familys-casual-attitude-to-wealth-2018-2 |archive-date=28 November 2022 |access-date=28 November 2022 |website=]}}</ref> In response to rumours related to the mine and Elon Musk, a November 2022 report by ] relied on news reporting to find in the 1980s, Errol "at some point owned "a stake in an emerald mine" near Lake Tanganyika in Zambia".<ref name=":10">{{Cite web |last=Liles |first=Jordan |date=17 November 2022 |title=What We Know About Elon Musk and the Emerald Mine Rumor |url=https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-mine/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408192229/https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-mine/ |archive-date=8 April 2023 |access-date=21 March 2023 |website=] |language=en}}</ref>

== Family life ==
Musk and ] met in high school,<ref name=":4"/> dated as young adults, and married in 1970.<ref name=":8" />{{rp|44}} They had three children: Elon, born in 1971, then Kimbal, and later Tosca.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Holson |first=Laura M. |date=30 April 2016 |title=At 68, Maye Musk, the Mother of Elon, Is Reclaiming the Spotlight |work=] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/fashion/elon-musk-mother-maye-musk-model-met-gala.html |url-status=live |access-date=15 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628120358/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/fashion/elon-musk-mother-maye-musk-model-met-gala.html |archive-date=28 June 2020 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The family lived in Pretoria, where Maye worked as a dietician and a model.<ref name=":4" /> After the end of the marriage in 1979, the children initially stayed with Maye, and Elon and Kimbal later moved in with their father.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Friend |first=Tad |author-link=Tad Friend |date=2009-08-24 |title=Plugged In |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/24/plugged-in |magazine=] |volume=85 |issue=25 |pages=50–59}}</ref>

Musk later married Heide Bezuidenhout and they had two children.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Crilly |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Crilly |date=25 March 2018 |title=Elon Musk's father has baby with step-daughter he has known since she was four |work=] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/25/elon-musks-father-has-baby-step-daughter-has-known-since-four/ |url-status=live |access-date=15 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426231132/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/25/elon-musks-father-has-baby-step-daughter-has-known-since-four/ |archive-date=26 April 2021 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> In 2018, ] reported that after Musk divorced Heide Bezuidenhout following 18 years of marriage, he had a child with Jana Bezuidenhout, his former stepdaughter from that marriage, then age 30, who had been four years old at the time Musk married her mother.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ball |first1=Molly |last2=Kluger |first2=Jeffrey |last3=De la Garza |first3=Alejandro |title=Elon Musk Is TIME's 2021 Person of the Year |url=https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2021-elon-musk/ |access-date=9 September 2023 |work=] |date=13 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref> In July 2022, Musk gave an interview to the tabloid newspaper '']'', announcing that he and Jana Bezuidenhout had another child.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sharma |first=Shweta |date=15 July 2022 |title=Elon Musk's father confirms second child with his own stepdaughter - report |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-errol-musk-children-stepdaughter-b2123744.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715150026/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-errol-musk-children-stepdaughter-b2123744.html |archive-date=15 July 2022 |access-date=15 July 2022 |website=]}}</ref><ref name="Biggs">{{Cite web |last=Biggs |first=Jade |date=16 July 2022 |title=Elon Musk's dad reveals he fathered an "unplanned" child with his stepdaughter |url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a40621623/errol-musk-fathered-child-with-stepdaughter/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715150205/https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a40621623/errol-musk-fathered-child-with-stepdaughter/ |archive-date=15 July 2022 |access-date=15 July 2022 |website=]}}</ref>

Musk has a total of seven children and according to '']'' in November 2022, is estranged from his son Elon.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Sager |first=Jessica |date=7 November 2022 |title=Who Is Elon Musk's Estranged Father? All About Errol Musk |url=https://people.com/human-interest/who-is-errol-musk-elon-musk-father/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124093348/https://people.com/human-interest/who-is-errol-musk-elon-musk-father/ |archive-date=24 November 2022 |access-date=28 November 2022 |website=]}}</ref>

According to the 2015 biography of Elon Musk titled '']'', in 1995, Errol Musk gave ]28,000 to Elon and Kimbal as they were starting up the software company ].<ref name="Hahn 2018">{{cite news |last1=Hahn |first1=Jason |title=Inside the Complicated Relationship Between Elon Musk and His Estranged Father, Errol Musk |url=https://people.com/human-interest/elon-musk-errol-musk-relationship/ |access-date=12 September 2023 |work=] |date=March 26, 2018}}</ref><ref name=":9" />{{rp|56}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=George |first=Ilian |title=Top Visionaries Who Changed The World |publisher=] |year=2017 |isbn=9788184959567 |pages=111}}</ref> Elon Musk has denied this.<ref name="Hahn 2018"/>

==Personal life==
He has been both a pilot and sailor.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last1=Hull |first1=Dana |last2=May |first2=Patrick |date=20 April 2014 |title=Exploring the otherworldly ambitions of Elon Musk |url=https://buffalonews.com/business/local/exploring-the-otherworldly-ambitions-of-elon-musk/article_2fc57479-93eb-5016-b724-016b48a4f4f3.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417231627/https://buffalonews.com/business/local/exploring-the-otherworldly-ambitions-of-elon-musk/article_2fc57479-93eb-5016-b724-016b48a4f4f3.html |archive-date=17 April 2022 |access-date=2022-07-15 |website=]}}</ref>

== See also ==

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== References ==
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==External links==
* ] number 0669 of 1996 for "Process and equipment to repair constant velocity joints.", ''Patent journal, including trademarks, designs, and copyright in cinematograph films''. (March 1996). South Africa: Government Printer of South Africa. Volume 29, p149. Available from the New York Public Library.

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