WORLDVIEW: Freshest star of Silicon Valley won’t move home – SA “makes me very sad.”

By Alec Hogg

Since arriving in London last May, among the more obvious learnings is how well South Africans travel. Their often turbulent, ever transforming country prepares its sons and daughters rather well for a world now feeling the winds of change. Highly marketable skills, and a Calvinistic work ethic makes them prized employees and contributing citizens.

But it is at the very top end that global South Africans really thrive. Even though he is just 45, Pretoria-born Elon Musk's entrepreneurial escapades have already earned legendary status in his new Californian home. The two year younger Roelof Botha, who was Musk's financial director at his first really successful venture PayPal, is on a similar trajectory.

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