Senegalese-American singer Akon has claimed that the world’s richest man and head of the United States Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk, is fighting for white folks in South Africa because their black counterparts have better living conditions.
He made the claim in a recent episode of the American podcast, Bagfuel Brigade.
It would be recalled that Elon Musk, who was born and raised in South Africa, has described the country as having “racist ownership laws,” accusing its government of doing too little to stop what he has referred to as a “genocide” against white farmers.
He made the allegations following the passage of a new land law, the Expropriation Act, by the President Cyril Ramaphosa-led government in January. The law allows the government to expropriate land—sometimes without compensation—under certain circumstances, such as when the land is unused or there is a public interest in its redistribution.
Akon claimed that Musk is fighting for the white folks in South Africa because they live in poorer conditions compared to their Black counterparts.
He said, “In South Africa, white people don’t have it as good as white people have in America. South Africa is probably the one place in Africa that was able to switch the table where the white folks live in the hood and the black people are living good. This is why Elon Musk is fighting for those white folks in South Africa.
“He feels like they are being mistreated and there is no equality. White folks are fighting for equality in South Africa because Blacks are the majority. Blacks in South Africa are united, if all the other [African] countries do that, we will be the superpower of the universe.”
Akon’s claim that black people have better living conditions than white folks in South Africa does not correspond with available data from the country.
South Africa’s white working population earns nearly three times the average wage of Black workers, according to 2022 World Bank figures.
Despite the end of apartheid 30 years ago, white farmers in South Africa still own about three-quarters of the country’s land, whereas they make up only 7% of the population.