Errol Musk

Musk was married to Heide Bezuidenhout for eighteen years and helped her raise her young daughter Jana Bezuidenhout, a child from a previous relationship. At the time of their marriage, Jana Bezuidenhout was only four years old and lived together with them. Later in life, after splitting from Heide Bezuidenhout, he fathered two children with her daughter (his former step-daughter) Jana Bezuidenhout; a son born in 2017 and a daughter born in 2019. Musk described the first child as unplanned. At the time of their daughter's birth, according to The Times, Musk was 72 and Jana Bezuidenhout was 30 years old. As of 2022, Musk and Jana Bezuidenhout were no longer living together. Musk has a total of seven children. He is estranged from his son Elon.

In a 2017 Rolling Stone interview, Musk claimed to have shot and killed seven burglars who forced their way into his Johannesburg home after the intruders opened fire.

In 1972, he was elected to the Pretoria City Council as a representative of the anti-apartheid Progressive Party, with the Musk children reportedly sharing their father's dislike of apartheid.

Musk met Maye Haldeman when he was 11 years old and they were childhood friends before marrying in 1970. She gave birth to 3 children; Elon Reeve Musk born on June 28, 1971, Kimbal Reeve Musk born on September 20, 1972, and Tosca Musk born on July 20, 1974. The family lived in Pretoria, where Maye worked as a dietician and a model. Musk told Agence France-Presse that he was a strict father who raised his children with discipline and austerity. After engaging in extra-marital affairs, Errol and Maye divorced in 1979, and both sons moved in with their father. Maye has stated that Errol beat her.

Musk worked as a pilot, a sailor, an electrical, a mechanical engineer, a consultant, and a property developer, before retiring early. In 1969, he became a 50% owner of an emerald mine on Lake Tanganyika, that he bought for £40,000, funded by selling an airplane for £80,000 (the equivalent of £320,000 today). In a 2018 interview with Business Insider, Musk boasted that as a result of the emerald mine "we had so much money we couldn't even close our safe."

Errol Musk (born 1946) is a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer who was once a co-owner of a Zambian emerald mine near Lake Tanganyika.

Errol Musk was born in 1946 in Pretoria, South Africa, to Walter Henry James Musk and Cora Amelia Robinson. His father was a South African veteran of World War II and his mother was British. His grandmother was the first chiropractor in Canada.