It’s been a week since the bombshell Kolisi divorce announcement rocked Mzansi.
Mense haven’t stopped talking about the trauma of Springbok captain Siya and mother of two Rachel going online to let South Africans down easy with a joint statement.
Having met at a dinner party in Stellenbosch in 2012, the pair got married in 2016.
They went on to have two oulike laaities, Nicholas and Keziah, and also adopted Siya’s younger siblings, Liyema and Liphelo.
But following last week’s statement, mense have been nuuskierig about what triggered the split.
The Bok captain recently posted a picture of him and teammate Eben Etzebeth flying off to Europe for this November’s outgoing tour, which had tongues wagging again.
This time though, the flanker’s comments section on his Instagram account was disabled, leaving fans to make up their eie theories as to why.
As news of their divorce continues to trend on social media, Rachel’s comments on The African CEO podcast from last month have surfaced.
Netizens allege that she addressed her relationship issues in the episode titled, Rachel Kolisi: How To Lead Your Own Life.
She spoke about the struggles of Siya’s busy rugby schedule and how it affected her and their family life.
And it didn’t paint the pretty picture about Siya’s Instagram usage.
She said: “We have always had situations of him being away for one, two, three, four months at a time and you learn to kind of live with that.”
“You just get so used to it and so yeah, you kind of just get on with life and I mean, there’s so much access over the phone that’s been made it easier to stay connected.
“It’s like a pet peeve for me, it's like when people are with one another like at a dinner or something and someone’s on their phone, like it's just an absolute no-no for me.
“It's different if you, you know, there's something really important that’s coming or an emergency…
“I just think the time that you do make for people, [you] make sure that you’re fully present because that goes a long way with people. Just making them feel like they’ve got your full attention, your mind is nowhere else, your eyes are nowhere else, they’ve just got you, that can last you a good few months.”
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