Zenoyise Madikwa
SowetanLIVE, 2 Novomber 2011
DESPITE high levels of unemployment, financial insecurity and increasing personal debt, there is still a place for lavish weddings in South Africa.
For new money, walking down the aisle is the ultimate excuse to show off the bling. BEE weddings seem to be the latest, grandest of affairs, with media coverage and public interest soaring.
Renowned designers personally oversee made-to-order gowns, top wedding planners are engaged to handle the proceedings and venues prohibitively expensive to the general public are fair game for the famous.
Andile Mngxitama, a social commentator and activist, said these bling weddings were "spitting in the faces of the poor".
He said most of the people hosting these flash weddings were politically connected tenderpreneurs.
"This rising wasteful elite with shocking amounts of wealth are sending a wrong message to the poor that you don't have to work hard - but you can be politically connected to be rich," he said. Read more ...
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