MommaC

R2.5 million for a wedding with 500 guests?
Holy bridesmaids Batman!
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BlackTruth

like father like son
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CheeseBoy

South African National Roads Agency Limited CEO Nazir Alli has resigned, the roads agency says.
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Revulshionary

These guys are going BIG !!!... At the rate they "acquire funds", R 2, 5 Million is actually nothing.



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somaartakeit

this family is shameless!!!! jirreeeee
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K-Austin

bo ntsa tlhe ba ja..rona bo katse re tshelelwa lebese......2.5 million....500 guest...big money spender
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RobinH

Oh God. Why didn't we see that one coming. The drops fall right under the shower.
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Papage

This family is realy enjoying the good times, the country is pulling hard with petrol and fighting E-Tolls and they just go on marrying and partying, What is wrong with our President?
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candilious

Why am i not supprised .............Looters
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1tsotsi

The only thing that the zuma family knows is to marry and nothing else.
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nondwe123

Like father like son.
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KeRataBasadi

I guess the only way we are ever going to know each of Zuma's squad kids is via a scandal, there goes Eddy now.
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Revulshionary

1tsotsi

You missed one thing... They are even better at producing Offspring... And..., no marriage even required !!!....


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Iwe

why was the fuction so expensive?
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RobinH

Iwe. And to what extent is that actually relevant?
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Blackstone.lebs

they are still on a looting rampage, heads are stuck deep in the cookie jar...there's no time to look at invoices
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Catswhiskers

Now we know why their salaries are never enough! Can't live within their means.
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BaleliM

Why have such an expensive wedding if you can not afford. Are you marrying for show off or marrying for yourselves?
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DeCock01

For how long must we accept this in SA..?? Maybe we should hold on to our votes...not vote at all...its pretty obvious Zuma will still be president in the next elections....no one within the ANC has b@lls to stand for election...now I know why Mbeki decided to stand for the third time...he saw this mess miles away...
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ThirdEye

2.5 million??? this family is having good time indeed.
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Revulshionary

BaleliM

Very well observed and correctly said... Lot more important thing here than just a function !!!!



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hlakolr

Tjerrr , a wedding or should i say a reception that cost R2.5 millions , Zuma family is really leaving large
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PleaseGetReal

RobinH
The drops fall right under the shower.

lol, had a good chuckle on this one.
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LijahaSisu

Its showering money at the Kingdom of Nkandla.
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RobinH

PleaseGetReal: Thanks. I enjoyed it.
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OmoT

1tsotsi
The only thing that the zuma family knows is to marry and nothing else.

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And to spend money - that they cannot afford - like there is no tomorrow.


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tpaz

things fall apart
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somaartakeit

ThirdEye
2.5 million??? this family is having good time indeed.
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the farmers in former transkei are given tractors worth 4mil this son alone spends in one day event 2.5 million, do you guys see what I mean when I say the kings throw peanuts to the monkeys? and we are going to vote for these ppl who continue to spit at our faces?
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MOKURUZANGA

Zuma guys really u'r busy with our taxes!la nyala ga le tshameke
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somaartakeit

the president's son's wedding costs 2.5mil a community is given 2mil by anglo to share amongst themselves for land reform and then this is okay, why?
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swona

he can afford it, he's just a crook, like his dad!
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Budapat

SOWETAN watch out, head of crime intelligence vowed to keep the FATHER in the presidency and you keep labeling the MSHOLOZIS, you gonna be silenced ''MEDIA CONTROL''
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eisleben

I told you so. I never trusted Jacob Zuma and I never will. Look now how the first family makes Mzansi look? The only two words they know how to practice is marry and take. Or take and marry, that is all they do best. Thick-headed thieves!!!
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19851014

Di-ja Mara-go family. I'm poor GOD, crying.
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viva

Is this really important, please give us news to think about or to find ways forward not this nonsense. Zuma this Zuma that JZ is the president what his children are doing is not news for a paper like Sowetan.
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somaartakeit

@ eisleben " Thick-headed thieves!!!" lol

@Budapat I don't think SAns will let it go that far, I think btwn us as citizens we have enough common sense to stop this looting carnage....
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WordofGod

@19851014
Di-ja Mara-go family. I'm poor GOD, crying.
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hello there......what ???????
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viva

@Eisleben you sound german most of the comments above are absurd, why entertain this nonsense. The son is not the president. Fellow readers cut the cra.....
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RobinH

viva: But the son is protected by his connection to the president, as you well know. No need to be quite so sulky.
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SeshegoGuY

What kind of business is he in?? Seem to be rolling in it...
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somaartakeit

In the meantime our dearest TM is fighting to save Africa's fin assets, damn and we had to have zuma for president!!

http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2012/05/08/body-tries-to-stop-bleeding-of-african-assets
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PDreamz

Damn the zuma's are a disgrace,insult and curse to SA they are actually a bunch of useless beings so stupid yeah I called them stupid who actually throws 2.5 mil wedding for 500 heads? knowing bloody well he cant foot the bill?
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WordofGod

Matthew 16:26 What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
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somaartakeit

@RobinH
viva: But the son is protected by his connection to the president, as you well know. No need to be quite so sulky.
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what is worse if the business owed this man had to lay off staff cause clients are not paying their debt that means jobs loses which affects the public, we already had job loses saga connected to the family of this president ref Aurora, so viva please try to see the bigger picture.
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RobinH

SeshegoGuy: Whatever businesses he got from Daddy. Or Daddy's friends.
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Pointman

Shameless. Zuma is having kids while his children are already having kids. The aunties and uncles in this family are going to be younger than the nieces and nephews. Looks like he failed to secure a sponsor before committing to the wedding. The guptas or someone will step forward soon but the bride must be blushing - from embarassment.
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swona

this is like borrowing money to wed, some will also borow ur mfazi boy, maybe ur dad!
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Quicky

ag come one guys, This is Zuma's son, he has nothing to do with tax money, if he did then he would have paid it up by now, and now you make it sound like getting married is a crime, hai suka umona nje sometimes ubuye udlale ngabantu abamnyama, ohk he owes R1.5 m so what, thina asingene lapho thats his own baby to nurse nani ke senifaka uJZ kulento mxm
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RobinH

Quicky> With respect, you are naive. Not directly, maybe, but much prestige and favour gets granted when one is good to the son of the president. Deals are made. Guifts are given. Daughters married off, and so on. It's how that filthy game called SA politics works.
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HappyEver

Ke mistake, i heard: he forgot to pay the coordinator. But the father is sorting it out.
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Quicky

Well Robin well maybe am just being realistic, coz if I was also JZ I d also look out for my family. corruption wil always be there in politics, and the same ppl who wants motlante to take over give them 2 years and they ll singing the same tune they do to JZ.
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nkunzemnyama

They want us to pay the E-tolls so that their children, grandchildfren will benefit through those scams & spend our money like it's theirs. 2.5M can enable me to help a lot of young ppl realise their dreams. Kodwa ngithi umbuso uzophela.
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LijahaSisu

Quicky
With respect Madam, tell me how many directorships Zuma's children combined hold before 27 December 2007, and then how many Duduzana alone held by 31 January 2008?

Wake up Madam, the Zuma Family are the Romanovs of SA.
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itsme4sure

And the divorce settlement will be double that amount....watch this space.
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Quicky

lijahasisu
but my brother does complaining and cursing here changing anything?
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LijahaSisu

Quicky
This is a public space where general people can make their views on issues affecting them or you are expecting them to communicate directly to Zuma?
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1tsotsi

LijahaSisu
Quicky
With respect Madam, tell me how many directorships Zuma's children combined hold before 27 December 2007, and then how many Duduzana alone held by 31 January 2008?

Wake up Madam, the Zuma Family are the Romanovs of SA.
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Very true hey, you only have to marry or be married to the zuma family then you are set for life, and we are expected to keep quite, not in our life time, but economic freedom in our life time.
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Masheleng

I have stated it before, the only thing our President is good at is singing and dancing, CONSUMER!

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RobinH

Quicky, there is a big difference between "looking out for my family" and protecting and indulging an errant son. Particularly if one is supposedly leading a nation and thus "setting an example" (though heaven forbid anyone should follow the example of our womanising dancer). And it is just lazy to assert that because corruption is rife in politics we should simply accept it. Are you crazy. The fact that it exists is NOT GOOD, and people MUST object.
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zazannem

Thatha shower boyb niyasawabisa kodwa.
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Sgodiphola

I feel sorry for the tax payers and millions of poor South Africans. This one is coming out of your South Africans purse.
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Cabloca

Oom Zuma se Mshini'wam! this Zuma family is really manacing our society. Where there is a Zoooooma, there is no peace
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Amazed

Honestly even this companies charge a lot it means they charge R5000 pp what type of meal is this ok decor etc but honestly even if we say a 3 meal course is expensive at least a 1000 rand haebo,Anyway some Zuma contacts will pay for it. It make me so sick that in this day and age when people are having it so hard u then get people spending 2.5 million for 1 day, Yes just like us they must marry and be happy but people just be considerate couldn't they have bought a lot of cattle and uplifted a small entrepreneur in farming in stock, get the community to cook a decend meal hired a big marquee Zuma's Inkandla has some big land,hired a good decor even if they would insist on a joint venture with an established decor company and saved money and in the mean time supported smme gaaa
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RobinH

Talk to Shabir, Eddy. He'll help.
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Sgodiphola

It must have a tender, how else can you charge R5000.00 per guest. This family is a disgrace, not that i expected anything better. Dooooooom K*ps.Mxm!!!!!
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MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

When I saw the story on one of the magazine, I asked myself where does he get themoney as the wi.fe is a train driver.........
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Sandile84

R2.5 million is a lot of money, it's probably looted from us taxpayers and the poor. We must take a stand against this. I ave an idea, we as normal South Africans must desrupt the lives of the ANC elite. If they don't deliver then we must desrupt their lives by, for example, protesting next to a wedding of their relatives or friends, Protest in front of their houses. Protest at a restaurant where they will be going. We must protest, peacefully ofcourse so that they deliver basic services to us and use our money wisely, not waste it.
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spokowee

aaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ya neh 2.5m!
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THANDY

ANOTHER ZUMA WHO OWS PEOPLE? IM NOT SUPRISED , an APPLE DOESNT FALL FAR FROM DE TREE !!!
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kadotch

marry me zuma
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Budapat

daddy's eldest son, question is - WHAT MODE OF TRANSPORT WOULD DADDY PROVIDE TO TRANSPORT HIS ENTIRE FAMILY, FROM THE ELDEST TO THE YOUNGEST (3yr old)? kwikwikwikwikwikwi
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mamame

@Sandile
Good idea! Will you tell Vavi so he can organise...
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Sandile84

@Mamame
COSATU members won't have time to protest frequently because they have jobs. Disrupting the lives of the ANC elite will only work if the unemployed do it. The best organization that is in a good position to do it is SANCO (South African National Civic Organization). Sadly, SANCO is nowhere to be seen. So it must be revived and then things will get better in South Africa.
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Uncompromising

Ooooh $hit........that woman is going to crash a train thinking about the outstanding debt.
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manfordm

this family is zoooming in on everything
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TKay

Tell daddy to use our taxes like he always does
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Mbelewolwazi

Zuma this Zuma that kodwa sifelani saze savelelwa.They just can't keep away from scandals. Maybe it's because they are too many which makes the devil's angel of scandals seem to be making a turn too quickly towards them. Just thinking.
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MGEEZ

somaartakeit
the president's son's wedding costs 2.5mil a community is given 2mil by anglo to share amongst themselves for land reform and then this is okay, why?
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That is our reward for lack of foresight and our (voters) inability to seperate between loyalty to a political party and what is right for our country (patriotism). I hope i have answered you.
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ntiki

The zumas are showing us the middle finger by throughing millions parties as they like,bloody mampara
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maftowncity

Oh my dear God,have mercy on us assemblief....for how long do we have to go on like this?
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Zeeyzee

are you mad so much money fro a wedding
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Geeny

Edward works and has always done so even before his dad became President! and when his dad was broke bcos of those cases he worked very hard to fundraise for him, he is an individual with an identity of his own and has been always active in the ANC. Zuma could not have dictacted how an old man like this should have his wedding and a man that has been independant for many years! u pple like to confuse issues at times and i suspect its deliberate! there are very few pple that marry with cash upfrnt that are able to pay for everything cash so obviously it would take them longer! i also suspect the company overcharged them after learning who they are. what the bride does is non of anyones business atlst she is working and not a housewife or criminal. how on earth would they have gotten hold of Tax money? they dont even get child support grant pple need to use their brains at times, im sure this was a prestigous wedding with esteemed guests can u imagine how much they had to pay for security alone? never mind the food,decor etc. ther is no proof they stole any money, nor is it mentioned anywher,its a couple inlove that got married and the guy wanted to give his bride her dream wedding finish!!
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MSG_S

SA realy belongs to Zumas. He wont pay and the court will do nothing about it. This is a Zuma.
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MSG_S

There was even no need for the weding in the first place. VAT and SIT oneway.
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MAARKENG-JANONG

Ke mas3pa fela nthwena
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ntiki

Geeny are Zuma's puppet?
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Geeny

ntiki no infact i dont even know Zuma, i just remember this boy in the struggle and i found out after a while dat he is Zumas son because ther was never a sense of entitlement in him. i am just a realist!
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TKay

@Geeny
I suspect that you are the bride
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kilawea

"""""When I saw the story on one of the magazine, I asked myself where does he get themoney as the wi.fe is a train driver........""""

......Have you ever heard of the "gravy train".....It is so popular among the ANC elite cadres........
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OmoT

@Geeny

"You suspect the company over-charged them because of who they are? how on earth would they have gotten hold of Tax money?"

Girl, are you for real???

Have you any idea just how much 2.5million is? That's 2,500,000!! And for just 500 guest, nogal!!!

Just how long do you think it will take you to save that, hmm? I sure as hell know it will take me forever - if ever - and I have a decent paid job that allows me to save each month.

For a young couple to spend that much on a wedding?

The bride is a train-driver. The groom is?

Is this not the same Zuma-daddy that had to ask for help with paying for his kids school fees not too long ago?

You need to get some perspective.



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Bhubesi

Who does charity work in the president's family anyway? At least someone could do some charity work just to pretend that they care.
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RobinH

Bhubesi> In that massive and growing family charity definitely begins at home.
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ProgressiveAfricanDemocrat

These guys live like royalty but leave a trail of debts. Daddy was not doing any better either, before he became president. So many of daddy's cheques just bounced. It seems daddy thought that if you just signed a cheque the bank would forget to check if there were sufficient funds in the bank account. It is probably tempting when you have a fat cheque book but no money in the account. But at the end of the day these things are about ethics.
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Lebstar

I just wonder what he does for a living ..........Or is this our money that is being spent like this????

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Malni

If I may ask What work does Jacob Zuma's son does and how much does her earn? Curious
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Yatlhothlonya

This is not on.Like father like son.
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