The father of the world’s richest man has opened up in a rare interview, speaking about Elon Musk’s childhood, allegations of sexual abuse and fathering two children with his former stepdaughter.
7NEWS Spotlight’s Liam Bartlett travelled to South Africa to speak with 79-year-old Errol Musk, who also touched on an incident when he shot dead three black intruders at his then-home in northern Johannesburg.
“Of course I didn’t want that to happen,” Musk snr told Spotlight of the 1998 shooting. “They attacked us: we were in the home, in a house I was renting out on a farm. They came in, about seven or eight of them, they just started shooting at us. Just opened up on us.
“The police picked up 52 shells. The house was a mess. I only fired two shots; one shot killed two people and the second shot killed another.”
Musk snr also told Bartlett that Langebaan — where he now lives, about 120km north of Cape Town — doesn’t “have crime because most of the people who’ve moved here; it’s very much a more European, white community.”
