Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during the inaugural parade inside Capitol One Arena, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) President Cyril Ramaphosa’s spokesperson has hit back at South African-born tech billionaire and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk’s comments that South Africa has more racially discriminatory laws aimed at white people than it did during apartheid. Race Law is a public-interest initiative by theSouth African Institute of Race Relations(IRR) to index all the statutes, regulations, policies, and superior court judgments that perpetuate racialism as a matter of law.
It does so through theIndex of Race Law. In a post on X, Musk again criticised the country’s transformation policies, describing them as discriminatory. “South Africa has more race laws today than it did during Apartheid.
All aimed at the White minority. This is what happens when Whites become a minority in their own country. Prepare accordingly.” It’s unclear what Musk meant by “prepare accordingly.” Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, pushed back against Musk’s comments on X. “Only an unhinged, unrepentant racist will not understand how deeply offensive such words are to people who still bear the scars of apartheid and everyday work to dismantle the mess left by colonialism and apartheid that benefited your ilk.” Only an unhinged, unrepentant racist will not understand how deeply offensive such words are to people who still bear the scars of apartheid and everyday work to dismantle the mess left by colonialism and apartheid that benefited your ilk.https://t.co/y7ZXfFptPW Former public protector Thuli Madonsela also weighed in on Musk’s post, questioning the accuracy of his claims.
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