Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28th, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. His mother Maye Musk is a model and dietitian born in Canada, but raised in South Africa. His father is Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant. Musk has a younger sister, Tosca (born in 1974). The family was very wealthy in Elon`s youth: his father once said “we had so much money at times we couldn't even close our safe”. After his parent`s divorced in 1980, Musk mostly lived with his father in Pretoria and elsewhere , a choice he made two years after the divorce and subsequently regretted...