Wedding of rich Indians are notable for conspicuous consumption and can go on for days. The guest list might run to thousands, the bill to millions. But as the spending habits of tycoons are copied by the merely comfortably off, throwing a memorable bash becomes harder. Not for the Guptas, three Indian-born brothers with big business interests in South Africa in computing, mining and newspapers. In the early morning of April 30th, around 200 of their friends and family from India touched down at Waterkloof, an air-force base close to Pretoria, South Africa's capital. They were spared the bother of customs or long queues at immigration. They quickly filed into a fleet of flashy cars and off they went to the wedding party for the businessmen's niece in Sun City, a gaudy gambling resort. Police with flashing lights escorted them. At the reception they mixed with leading political figures, including Duduzane Zuma.
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