REFLECTIONS: The Big Fat Gupta Wedding: Volume 4 (and 5) By Rebecca Davis becsplanb
It’s not easy being a Gupta these days. After suffering the indignity of having the family’s Indian businesses and properties raided by the national taxman in March 2018, the Guptas then faced the further blow of having their donation to gold-plate the roof of a Saharanpur temple rejected — once the temple committee found out that the donors were, to quote the, “the Gupta brothers, who were behind a corruption scandal and the political turbulence in South Africa”.
It is fortunate that the Guptas still have some single offspring to marry off, because these will be the fourth and fifth of such ceremonies since 2013: The year in which “Gupta wedding” entered our national lexicon as a concept. We also didn’t know some of the other fun facts around the wedding. That Iqbal Survé tried to lobby the Guptas for a better-quality hotel room for the weekend. That about R105,000 worth of crockery went missing during the wedding, including frying pans and bread baskets. That the Guptas demanded that as many white women as possible cater to the whims of their minister-studded guest list.
This time around, the wedding bells are tolling for Ajay Gupta’s son Suryakant from June 18 to 20 and, directly afterwards, for Atul Gupta’s son Shashank. On behalf of South African journalists, our Indian counterparts are urged to look into what exactly went down in that meeting. Experience has taught us that when the Guptas meet with government officials, the results are often interesting.
This news does stick in the craw a tiny bit, considering that the progress made by South African authorities in holding the Guptas to account for their State Capture plundering is at this stage entirely invisible.
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