‘Can Elon Musk buy Eskom too?’: SA celebrates businessman’s big flex

A week after tweeps asked Elon Musk to help victims of the KwaZulu-Natal floods natural disaster, they are at it again following his Twitter purchase.

And this time South Africans have a host of requests for the businessman who owns companies Tesla, SpaceX and The Boring Company.

@DeanMacpherson: “Can @elonmusk buy Eskom next?”

@joe_emilio_: “Hey @elonmusk please buy South Africa and banish the ANC”

@MokgalakaLemba: “Can Elon Musk buy prime land in Cape Town and give it to the people of Gugulethu, Khayelitsha and others to build homes for themselves. That’ll be lovely”

@fbfb1ee371834f3: “Can Elon Musk sort out the water problem at Ugu District Municipality in KZN?”

@logic_mufc: “Can @elonmusk buy UNISA first”

@Tshilidzi100: “Can Elon Musk buy Table Mountain?”

@AGA82171: “No, @elonmusk is buying @ManUtd next”

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But whilst many tweeps are celebrating “one of their own”, others are claiming Elon Musk isn’t really considered a South African.

Elon left SA as a teen for his mother’s home country of Canada. He then settled in the US and has been living there for several decades.

@IvynSambo: “No disrespect but I still don’t see how Elon Musk’s wins are South African wins that we can be proud of!”

@TheAnalyst777: “Stop trying so hard to claim @elonmusk as a South African. I am not fighting”

@Yhu_Abelungu: “@elonmusk doesn’t identify as a South African or even a Pretorian. That guy does not like us! Leave him alone

@LeratoN_: “Charlize Theron has been living in America since 2008 and still calls herself a South African. This is who we should be claiming, not Elon”

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When asked by a tweep if he considered himself American or South African, Elon Musk replied: “American, but born in South Africa. Left by myself when I was 17”.