The Midweek Sun

A CELEBRITY DIVORCE AFTER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE?

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What could have gone wrong ko lwapeng la ga Rre le Mme Sikwane? Married for 20 years and then divorce just like that? Le gale ka some other couple here in Botswana is currently working towards a divorce settlement after 50 years in marital bliss! What could have gone wrong after so many years mara? Even 20 years is too much to suddenly decide you no longer want each other.

If the manner in which Thato Sikwane aka DJ Fresh and wife Thabiso Sikwane casually announced their divorce while also being lovey-dovey is to be taken as real, then we join those who say their marriage may never have been about just love but a business deal.

The South African media this week has been circulatin­g a video of the two talking about steps they are taking towards divorce. Anybody who has a bit of understand­ing about love, marriage, separation and divorce must have been left confused by the duo who romantical­ly discussed their separation while also discussing some honey farm business in the background, and the wife advertisin­g some company through some branded t-shirt.

DJ Fresh adds some word in encouragin­g the people to support Thabiso’s business. In the video, the two are just too close to each other for a couple going through divorce, and they are laughing and looking each other in the eyes like a couple that just married over the weekend.

Magatwe a re actually it is the woman who asked for a divorce, yet in the video she looks the one more in love.

The confusion over the sexy and romantic divorce announceme­nt by DJ Fresh and wife Thabiso still lingers on, but we gather that the wife fell out of love with the music producer and DJ after the latter was accused of drugging and raping a girl – a case still in the courts of South Africa right now. Gatwe actually the two have been sleeping in separate rooms since 2021, the year the alleged rape and drugging incident were reported, and we hear further that even though the DJ tried initially to stop the wife from taking such a drastic decision, he eventually decided he was not going to contest the divorce. Magatwe a re the rape incident involving a then second-year university student happened more than ten years ago. Gatwe MoGirl wa teng cried that she was a virgin at the time of the incident and claims to have been on antidepres­sants since then. Reports actually say that the DJ was dismissed from 947 radio station after the allegation­s of drugging and rape surfaced. Thato and Thabiso met a long time ago at YFM where the man was a DJ and the lady a newsreader. They married on September 11 in 2002, with the woman deciding to end it all this year. Magatwe actually a re the woman o sale a itshokeket­se dilonyana in the marriage, with claims that at one point, Thato had a child out of wedlock, and the woman and her man smoked a peace pipe. Looks like this time around she is not looking back. But with this life being what it is, we know DJ Fresh will soon be dating again, if not already and we wish them well both as they begin to navigate the path of living separately after so long. And they have children!

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