Sounds like
the opening bash was quite the celebrity studded affair.
Other friends such as Sharon Stone, Robert de Niro, Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon and Mariah Carey swept into town for an intimate and shmoozy cocktail party celebrating the hotel's opening, which he says is a vote of confidence in the new South Africa.
Can't understand why I wasn't invited.

Maybe he knew I was in Tokyo.
So far I haven't heard anything except that the restaurant prices also take things "to another level in South Africa".