Washington Post: В Вашингтоне забеспокоились растущим влиянием Илона Маска

Childhood and family

Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, one of the capital cities of South Africa,^[7][8] and was baptized into the Anglican church.^[9] Musk has British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.^[10][11] His mother is Maye Musk (née Haldeman), a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.^[12][13][14] His father is Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer, who was a half-owner of a Zambian emerald mine near Lake Tanganyika.^[15][16] Musk has a younger brother, Kimbal, (born 1972) and a younger sister, Tosca, (born 1974).^[14][17]