DINNER PARTY INTEL: Is Tesla headed for SA?
SA’s most famous tech billionaire, US-based Elon Musk, may open a Tesla store in this country next year
1. Get your Tesla here SA’s most famous tech billionaire, US-based Elon Musk, may open a Tesla store in this country next year. Asked by a fan when one would open in the country of his birth, the electric-car maker’s founder and CEO replied on Twitter: "Probably end of next year." If so it will be Africa’s first. It would also be a popular, confidence-boosting move, even if electric cars are not cheap and recharging stations few and far between. And it assumes Eskom can be relied on to supply uninterrupted power. 2. War on journalists In recognition of journalists sacrificing self for subject, Time magazine has named "The Guardians" as 2018’s joint "person of the year". The accolade has been awarded to slain Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi; the five Capital Gazette staff killed in a mass shooting; Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone (jailed for reporting on the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar); and Maria Ressa, a fierce critic of the Duterte regime in the Philippines, "for taki...
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