President Jacob Zuma will not be attending the wedding of the wealthy and politically connected Gupta family, Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation Minister Collins Chabane said today.
Zuma, said to be a close ally of the Guptas, had other commitments to attend to.
Briefing journalists on the fortnightly post-cabinet briefing, Chabane said high level investigations were already underway into how the Guptas were able to land a chartered flight at the Waterkloof airforce base in Pretoria.
The probes, to be done by the International Relations Department, SARS and Defence, would also unearth whether diplomatic privilege was abused to allow the Gupta family to land wedding guests at Waterkloof - a national key point.
Several government departments have denied they gave clearance for a jet chartered by the Guptas to land at the base.
02/04/13 SAPA/Cape Times, South Africa
