Elon Musk has endorsed a message about allowing race-based emigration from his native South Africa.
Musk took to X to quote a tweet that reads: “White South Africans are being persecuted for their race in their home country.
“Also White South Africans are one of the few population groups that are fiscally positive when immigrating to Europe.
“We should allow more immigration of White South Africans.”
Musk, who is a white South African, quoted the tweet and showed that he agreed by writing, “Yes”.
He also shared another tweet claiming that lands are being taken from White South Africans and given to blacks.
Elon Musk’s tweet comes after President Donald Trump threatened South Africa over new land expropriation laws.
The string of events that led to Musk’s endorsement of immigration by his white fellow-countrymen started when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in January signed into law a bill that could flip the script on the minority ownership of the majority of the country’s farmland.
In post-apartheid South Africa, where Musk was born, Black people remain the overwhelming land-owning minority, despite being the ethnic majority.
Ramaphosa’s bill would allow the government to seize farmland without compensation to landowners.
President Trump, who Elon Musk advises, has threatened to cut funding over South Africa’s land policy.
In a wild post shared on Sunday night via his Truth Social, Trump railed against the new law, calling it a “human rights VIOLATION” and threatening to cut funding to the country in response.
Musk showed that he agreed with Trump on Monday, Fwb. 3, by quoting an X message by Ramaphosa defending his move and asking: “Why do you have openly racist ownership laws?”
White ownership of farmland in South Africa exists in part due to a colonial and apartheid era where many Black people had their land snatched before being systematically denied ownership rights.
Meanwhile, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has called Elon Musk to speak to Trump.
Ramaphosa’s office said that in the call to Mr Musk the president “reiterated South Africa’s constitutionally embedded values of the respect for the rule of law, justice, fairness and equality”.