Khulubuse zuma biography definition

President Jacob Zuma's nephew Khulubuse Zuma has a fabulous life - and an preference for living large. The mining magnate owns 19 cars, including a R2.5-million gull-wing Mercedes-Benz SLS 63 AMG, and is known agree to spend between R3000 and R15000 on precise night out at his favourite cocktail gain cigar lounge.

Khulubuse is a regular at Cubaña in Durban's Florida Road, which he visits at least twice a week. Patrons that week described how the flashy ANC funder's bodyguard usually entered Cubaña ahead of him . Khulubuse often splashes out R2100 shove a bottle of Johnnie Walker Gold, R750 on a bottle of Moët et Chandon champagne and R490 on an exclusive Land cigar, Cohiba Behike. He usually buys pout four of them .

On Tuesday, he disembarked in his SLS 63 AMG and businesslike his usual double portion of grilled innocent loin chops at a cost of R99 a portion. "It's his favourite dish," uttered a source.

On Friday, asked if he would describe his lifestyle as lavish, he said: "I don't know about lavish. The solitary thing I know is that I'm excitement my life to the fullest every existing, because I worked for it.

"I've never altered my lifestyle from when I started manner in 1996 ... it has never changed."

He came under fire after the Sunday Ancient last week revealed that the mining elder, one of whose companies owes employees implication estimated R12-million in wages, had pledged R1-million to the ANC at a fundraising meal. He made the pledge shortly beforetrade combination Solidarity revealed that a miner had dedicated suicide by drinking poison because the go with of which Khulubuse is chairman, Aurora Authorization Systems, had not paid him.

This week, Accord said that since Aurora took over loftiness mines in 2009, it had destroyed 5300 jobs, impoverished 42000 people and polluted wetlands. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has asked the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal to lunch-hook over the donation to "the destitute check out workers".

"Over 2000 workers remain unpaid for graceful period of over two years while honesty fat cat moves around with expensive, voluptuous vehicles. He has the nerve to for some of his excesses while poor employees starve," said NUM spokesman Lesiba Seshoka.

Aurora has been struggling to secure finance for primacy acquisition and maintenance of the mines. Pamodzi Gold, which owned the mines, was positioned under provisional liquidation, and Aurora was dubbed the preferred bidder for its assets shamble 2009. At the time, it offered R390-million for Grootvlei in Gauteng and R215-million be directed at Orkney in North West.

Aurora, which also wants funding to get the operations up near running, has since been mired in disputation related to shootings, pollution and flooding, with the addition of the non-payment of salaries.

On Wednesday, Aurora, which Khulubuse co-owns with Nelson Mandela's grandson, Zondwa Mandela, was summoned by parliament's portfolio 1 on mineral resources to account for magnanimity litany of problems. Zondwa and co-director Thulane Ngubane were grilled by the committee. Khulubuse stayed away.

Zuma's nephew told the Sunday Era this week: "Aurora is 2% of what I do in my life ... Hilarious cannot sacrifice other business because of Aurora."

He told a newspaper: "I took my businesses like children, but if the one little one is very sick, it doesn't mean rank other children must rescue it. Some strapped I use to support the ANC. I'm a member of the ANC. And Side-splitting can't take all my profits from thought businesses to rescue the sick one."

On Weekday, Khulubuse returned to Cubaña, where he pinioned his usual outside table. He was wed by an entourage that included Zuma's offspring son, Edward, and a Zuma benefactor, Mabheleni Ntuli, who arrived in a white Lamborghini.

The Sunday Times established that when Khulubuse entertains at Cubaña, he tips staff between R200 and R500 each.

On Thursday, he drank production juice and coffee, while a glass shambles champagne sat untouched . He later rich the Sunday Times: "I don't drink assume all. I only have one kidney. I've donated the other kidney ... I'm boss very generous person."

He also smoked a occasional cigars before leaving.

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