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'I'm sure Elon, Trump and others will find a solution.'
Errol last spoke to his eldest son a few days after the election. A fervid Trump supporter himself, Errol was cock-a-hoop that he was back in power. He tells me he spoke to Elon for 'a few minutes'.
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'A few minutes of his time is worth 24 hours or more of other people's time,' he says. 'I was saying, 'Oh my God, this is incredible. You've done such a good job.' He said, 'Thank you for everything you've done.' Then we spoke about the family and Tesla.'
Tesla's value has soared by more than 20 per cent in the past month.
'Elon's assets are now $80billion more than there were, but he wouldn't be the man he is today if it wasn't for me,' says Errol without a hint of irony. 'I look at Elon now and say he's a better version of me. He's less mercurial. People who know us say he's a clone. He is exactly like me.'
Errol is talking to me from his fabulous open plan house on the coast of the Western Cape, South Africa, where the kitchen is littered with cards from and photographs of his seven children and many grandchildren.
'Sixteen or 17,' he says, smiling. 'I lose count.'
This Christmas three of his daughters β Elon's sister Tosca and two half-sisters β and their families 'are coming en masse' to celebrate with him.
Rather than digging into the family turkey, Elon will be busy stripping the fat from the 'bloated' US federal government as he and fellow billionaire and former presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy head the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which will target $500 billion in cuts.
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Trump calls it the 'Manhattan Project of our time', the name given to the programme to create nuclear weapons.
'These organisations are bloated, out of control,' says Errol. 'But it's not just about trimming staff. In engineering, we have what is called time and motion studies, making sure things are done in a better way.
'Elon thinks woke is a joke. He's said it's got to end. I forget his exact words, but he's starting a war on woke. He says woke has taken his oldest son from him.'
He's referring to Elon's trans daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson, who he's said on 'X' has been 'killed by the woke mind virus'.
Wilson, who sought court approval in California to change her name and denounced her father in 2022, has said she plans to leave the States after Trump's victory.
'Elon didn't spend much time with his children who are now in their 20s β not like I did with him and his brother,' says Errol, with a sort of 'more-fool-him' shake of his head.
Elon, whose parents divorced in 1979, began living with Errol β a wealthy former engineer who also part owned an emerald mine β at his stud farm where 'pretty women were coming and going' from the age of nine.
He was 12 years old when his brother, Kimbal, joined him. Their colourful, live-life-with-no-limits childhood was one of private jets, boats, horses and many, many women. How many?
'After 200 you stop counting,' says Errol. 'If you see an ocean, cross it. If you see a lake, water-ski on it. If you see a mountain, climb it. Let's see how high it is up there. I'd say I passed that attitude to my sons. But Elon's older children don't know him.'
Elon has five older children with first wife writer Justine Wilson β 20-year old twins and 18-year-old triplet sons.
He also has three younger ones with his ex-partner, singer Grimes β a four-year-old son X, a daughter nicknamed Y, who turns three next month, and two-year-old son Tau.
Elon, who like Errol is passionate about pro-natalism, a movement that encourages larger families in the face of perceived population decline, is also a father to two-year-old twins and a baby with Shivon Zillis, a 38-year-old executive at his braintech company Neuralink.
'I'm proud I took them [his two eldest sons] to school and fetched them every day,' says Errol. 'They are who they are because I spent every day with them.
'I've told Elon I'm glad he's taking little X around everywhere although it kind of worries me because he's taking him to adult events and he's only four. But he wants to make sure he's more hands on with this one. He wants to ensure, I think, that he's got an heir he can depend on.'
Errol tells me his son is 'black and white' with no 'grey' areas.