Errol Musk retired as an electromagnetic engineer.
Errol Musk, father of Twitter CEO Elon Musk, has claimed that the tech billionaire visited an emerald mine in Zambia with him where he did not eat for four days. He claimed this in an interview with Sun Elon Musk despite controversy over the claim that his father owned a mine in the African country. The head of Tesla offered one million Dogecoin to anyone who could prove its existence. But Errol Musk said that Elon accompanied him on a trip to the Lake Tanganyika region.
Errol Musk said, “I visited the mine once, Elon came with me. It was lousy. There was nothing but stamp mealy (ground dried corn) to eat.”
He added, “Elon didn’t eat anything for four days in a row.” told the outlet,
Talking in detail about the trip, Errol Musk told Sun that he told his son to be ready to land at Johannesburg’s Rand airport at night because Elon had forgotten to take his passport.
Errol Musk said that he was questioned by immigration officials because Elon did not have a passport.
“We ate humble pie and luckily got away with just one fine,” he said.
In a long tweet on Sunday, Elon Musk did denied the existence of emerald mine, Sharing details about his childhood, the second richest man in the world said that he never inherited anything.
Responding to a user’s tweet, Mr Musk said he grew up in a “variety of low, high, middle-income situations”, but never experienced a happy childhood.
“Regarding the so-called “emerald mine”, there is no objective evidence that this mine ever existed. He told me he had a share in a mine in Zambia, and I believed him for a while, But no one has ever seen the mine, nor is there any record of its existence,” he had further said in the tweet.
His mother Maye Musk supported the billionaire’s tweet and said that they lived in a “one bedroom apartment” in Toronto.