South African becomes the richest man on Earth
Thanks to the continued increase in Tesla's stock price, South African-born billionaire Elon Musk has become the richest individual on the planet, surpassing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Musk is now worth nearly $188 billion (2, 867 trillion South African Rands), which is more than the 2020 GDP of Kenya, Ghana and Senegal combined. This all happened on Thursday 7 January 2020, with his Tesla shares of which he owns 20% […]