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Many of these movements reject the label of racism or genetic white superiority and insist that their goal is to defend white culture and interests, which they believe are threatened by demographic changes and public policies that favour non-white people. Some, such as AfriForum in South Africa, even identify as civil rights and minority advocacy groups.
Musk is not the only white South African that came out of apartheid and made it big in the US tech industry. Three other high-tech geeks, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and Roelof Botha also have deep apartheid roots. Botha was born in Pretoria and is the grandson of Pik Botha, apartheid South Africa’s last foreign minister.
Thiel is estimated to have a net asset of more than $18 billion and ranked 129th in global wealth. He runs several investment or venture capital firms and is the financial godfather of US Vice President JD Vance. He bankrolled his election for an Ohio Senate seat in 2022, spending US$10 million on his campaign, and once employed him in his global investment firm, Mithril Capital .
policies deny jobs, services and educational opportunities to qualified white people, encourage inefficiency and retard economic development. The logic of the DEI ban goes against research that finds a strong correlation between diversity and profitability. McKinsey and Company, a US management consulting firm, conducted four surveys on the relationship between leadership diversity and company performance between 2015 and 2023, with each report showing that diversity is good for profitability.
The US played a lead role in denazifying German society and supported the Basic Law and Constitutional Court Act, which prohibits parties that “seek to undermine or abolish free democratic basic order’ . Under these provisions, Hitler’s National Socialism party and the communist party were banned from politics. The Italian Constitution of 1947 also banned the extreme right and violent National Fascist Party and its successor, the Republican Fascist Party.
D Vance and Musk’s brazen interference in Germany’s 2025 elections, in which they supported the hard-right Alternative for Germany , which received an unprecedented one fifth of the votes, sent shock waves across Europe’s liberal political establishment. Musk tweeted that only the AfD could save Europe , and Vance shocked the world by meeting with the leader of the AFD, Alice Weidal, before the elections and chastised German mainstream politicians for excluding the AfD from government .
The ideology of white supremacy is intertwined with the global history of racism. It is what drove Europe’s conquest of the world. White supremacy lost its sting with the end of slavery, colonialism and apartheid, and became confined to fringes within states. However, scholars believe that it has made a strong rebound in recent decades by assuming a transnational character. Heidi Beirich has traced the evolution of these movements from a domestic to a transnational phenomenon.
One interesting dimension of the transnationalisation of hard-right movements is the role that tech billionaires with apartheid roots have played in their development. These billionaires and their far-right views found a home in America’s racially-charged environment when they moved to the US to pursue their careers. They financed Trump and the Republican Party and are part of the strategy to upend the global liberal order.
Biz News 2024, “Gary Player: His friendship with Trump; ending ‘wokeness’; and a vision South Africa’s future”. 10th December.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahv3IKzMdHA&t=14s Khan, A. 2024, “The Untold Story of the PayPal Mafia who shaped Silicon Valley”. https://yourstory.com/2024/05/paypal-mafia-tech-leaders-success
The Face of War n.d., “John Mearsheimer: Trump pivots to Asia as Russia expands, Ukraine Collapses”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnBHeO9npWA The White House 2025 , “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”. 27 March. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/
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