Elon Musk's son-in-law, Elon Musk, stated that Joshua Norman Haldeman and his wife were fanatically in favor of apartheid and used to support Hitler.

Joshua Norman Haldeman wrote an article in Saskatchewan describing black South Africans as very primitive people who must not be taken seriously and stated that the present government of South Africa knew how to handle the native question.

Elon Musk's maternal grandfather, Joshua Norman Haldeman, was born in 1902 in Minnesota.

Joshua Norman Haldeman directly stated that the South African government's racial policies had encouraged him to come to South Africa in the first place.