• nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    I’ll keep correcting this when I see it. There was no Musk-owned, South African Apartheid emerald mine.

    It was a mine in Zambia. A completely different exploited African nation. And Musk was only about to afford it because, as a wealthy white man in South Africa benefiting from Apartheid, he had a private plane that he traded for a share in the mine.

    The “self-made” man got rich because of colonial exploitation in two African nations. Not just the one.