>comes from a family that's rich as hell
>gets a $5 grocery store sheet cake for birthday
>wears clothes that my grandmother would find fashionable
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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You don't stay rich by wasting all your money on something dumb like your kids.
Admittedly, grocery store sheet cake is pretty good tho.
Theres a universe out there somewere where this happened
Screaming "Wakanda Forever" as I brain this kid with the butt of my AK
That's a great one lmao, South Africans love the black panther movies so it just makes the joke 
god he was an ugly-ass kid too.
Looks all white to me.
i know the ANC preserved a lot of the whites' ownership and redistribution failed to alleviate poverty
but what im wondering is whats happened to the property of the many who have emigrated since? was it forfeited? sold? or are there lots of absentee owners who just live in other anglo countries?
Sold mostly. Mainly to political or business elites. Only people that can afford those houses they used to live in.
You can only understand the energy of this picture if you've lived in South Africa before. Just something about it, can't really explain.
(CW: bullying)
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HAHA YOUR DAD DIED HAHAHA 
ABLULBLU WHY YOU THROW ME DOWN STAIRS 
He then decided to move to Pretoria Boys High School and sell fake expensive chocolates. At least that's how the rumours go.
Grifters gonna grift.
He started really young, apparently he also sold some of his dad's emeralds while on holiday in New York as a teenager.
He's told multiple origin stories and the details vary depending on which pieces of the truth are convenient enough to fill in the blanks around the lies.
Yeah a lot of lies, but I think the emerald story is one his dad told to South African news outlets when Elon tried to pull the "I was so poor I left South Africa with no money" story.
the emerald story
Oh Musk himself did tell it, too.
I almost thought the candles reflection was an angry mob.
I am so glad that I am so drunk that I first thought this was a bit. Well, all I can say about this kid is, that he was most likely not a nice South African.
Dopey looking kid.
Is that Elon Musk?
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