MEMORY LANE: REMEMBER WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY SUPPORTED.. THEY KNEW AND THEY DIDN'T CARE. They are al part of the same rot as the Epstein files. They are not a call to action. Think of them as a autopsy report of western culture.
President Trump’s targeting of South Africa is clearly tied to his influential adviser Elon Musk and a coterie of wealthy U.S. oligarchs, “all of whom in some way or other grew up in South Africa as children.” These men are known as the “PayPal mafia” due to their involvement in the founding of the financial tech company PayPal,
In a conversation with Democracy Now, Chris McGreal, a former South Africa correspondent for The Guardian, outlined Musk’s pro-apartheid and neo-Nazi family history, which appears to form the basis of his adherence to a right-wing ideology that believes white South Africans “are the victims of the end of apartheid” and at risk of a “white genocide.”
MEMBERS OF THE PAYPAL MAFIA
1. Musk himself, who was born in South Africa and lived there, went to high school there ’til he was 18, and then moved to Canada.
2. Peter Thiel, who was a co-founder with Musk of PayPal. Thiel was born in Germany but brought to South Africa as a young child. His father was a mining engineer, lived in Johannesburg and then moved to South West Africa, which was then a South African colony, is now Namibia. And he went to school in Swakopmund, which was notorious as probably the last place on the planet where people still openly greeted each other with “Heil Hitler” and celebrated Hitler’s birthday. He went to a German school there before moving to the United States when he was 10 or 11.
3.David Sacks, who was born in Cape Town. He was big in PayPal and is now Trump’s AI and crypto czar. He moved to Tennessee as a relatively young child but grew up in the white South African diaspora there.
4.Roelof Botha, the grandson of Pik Botha, the last foreign minister of apartheid South Africa. He was the acceptable face of apartheid. You will remember, he used to run around the United States trying to put a gloss on how they were reforming things and that everything was getting better, which apparently it wasn’t.
BTW: Yes, Elon Musk features in the Epstein files. Documents show email correspondence from 2012 and 2013 in which Musk discussed visiting Epstein's private Caribbean island, with one email from Musk asking which night would have the "wildest party".
Yes, Silicon Valley investor and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel is mentioned extensively in records related to Jeffrey Epstein, with reports indicating he appears over 2,200 times in recent document releases. The documents, released between late 2025 and February 2026, reveal a business and personal relationship between Thiel and Epstein that spanned from roughly 2014 to 2019.
David Sacks' name has been reported to appear in Jeffrey Epstein's contact list, often referred to as the "Little Black Book".
Botha is the only one of the four whose name does not appear in the Epstein files.







