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The Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi where the Gupta family are reportedly hosting a lavish double wedding in February 2019.

The Guptas are reported to be hosting a lavish double wedding at a palatial hotel in Abu Dhabi.

The AmaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism published a nine-page wedding invitation on Friday and said the bash, an event lasting five days between February 19 and 23, could end up costing as much as R100m.

“The wedding is a double-feature, with Rajesh ‘Tony’ Gupta’s daughter Shubhangi Singhala marrying Chetan Jain and Atul Gupta’s son Srikant Singhala tying the knot with Akhya Bansal.

“This is the third publicly lavish wedding the family has funded,” said AmaBhungane.

The logos of Gupta companies in South Africa, including the Koornfontein mine where miners have gone unpaid, are featured in the wedding invitation.

The publication said a request for comment direct
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The coastal town of Kleinsee situated in the Northen-Cape is flooded with illegal diamond miners. The town that was part of the De Beers group has recently been a quiet coastal village with almost no stickers. It has changed drastically over the past few weeks with a diamond rush of almost 8,000 “miners.

Land that was rehabilitated by the mining group was occupied by the miners who set up huts, tents and temporary structures. Neat and rehabilitation material has been extracted and used as shelter material while new vegetation has been pulled out on the dunes to strengthen sails and structures. Nearly 8,000 miners were counted before the weekend and reportedly it grew to 15,000.

Beach facilities like toilets and showers are taken over as laundry facilities and wash facilities. No toilets exist and the open grooves are used as restrooms. The police refuse to act against the setlers because they were threatened with death.

The town’s
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Guptas at it again – workers unpaid but lavish R100m double wedding planned – most likely funded by the ANC-regime?

Small coastal village in Northern Cape, Kleinsee is flooded with illegal diamond miners