'Love Island SA' Winners Thimna Shooto and Libho Gheza Announce Their Break Up

'Love Island SA' Winners Thimna Shooto and Libho Gheza Announce Their Break Up

  • Love Island South Africa winners Thimna and Shooto have announced that they are going their separate ways after almost a year of dating
  • The couple met, got to know each other and fell in love during South Africa's spin-off of the international Love Island franchise
  • Thimna and Libho both took to their Instagram pages to announce their breakup, saying they will cherish the time they spent together

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Love Island Season 1 winners Thimna Shooto and Libhonogolethu (Libho) Geza have called it quits. The couple met and fell in love during the six weeks that they stayed in the Love Island SA villa. They won a whopping R1 million, which they split.

'Love Island SA', Thimna and Libho, break up
Love Island SA winners Thimna and Libho have broken up. Image: @itsmythimthim and @libhogeza
Source: Instagram

After leaving the show, the couple opened a YouTube channel, Life with Limna, to enable their fans to keep up with their relationship. Up until a week ago, Thimna and Libho were a couple that continuously served couple goals on social media.

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According to TimesLive, the reality TV stars took to their respective Instagram pages, to announce that they had called it quits. They both had nice things to say about each other and shared that they have had an amazing journey.

Thimna said that the past year of their relationship had been amazing and she wouldn't change a thing about it. She wrote:

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“Libho and I have decided to break up. We thank each and everyone of you who have supported and loved us. The past year has been amazing! Our relationship was beautiful and I wouldn't change a thing about it.”

Libho also said that the past year has taught him a lot about himself and relationships in general. He said:

“Thimna and I have decided to break up. It's been an amazing journey and I find comfort in that we gave it a full go and held nothing back. I've learned so much about relationships and myself. I will cherish our time together forever.”

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Thimna Shooto and Libho Gheza from 'Love Island SA' Break Up: Image: @libhogeza and @itsmythimthim
Source: Instagram

Fans speculate why Minnie Dlamini ended her marriage, they think Unathi had a hand in the divorce

In related entertainment news, Briefly News reported that Minnie Dlamini and her soon-to-be ex-husband Quinton Jones announced in a joint statement that they are getting a divorce. The world stood still for a few moments before "Minnie Dlamini" and "divorce" started trending on Twitter.

The news of Minnie's divorce turned peeps into FBI agents who were quick to dig deeper to see what really caused Minnie and Quinton to end their four-year marriage. Social media users are convinced that the Homeground presenter has been dropping signs of trouble in paradise since last year.

According to local blog Maphephandaba, Minnie started showing tell-tell signs of trouble in her marriage when she changed her IG handle from Minnie Dlamini Jones to just Minnie Dlamini. The mother of one allegedly deleted some of her hubby's photos from her Instagram page, much to the surprise of her 4.5 million followers.

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Anyone who follows Minnie knows how close she is to singer and radio presenter Unathi. However, fans on social media have weighed in on the nature of their friendship, arguing that Unathi had a hand in Minnie's divorce. According to peeps, it was Unathi, who is also a divorcee, who influenced Minnie.

@Xavier__101 wrote:

"I knew something was wrong when Minnie started spending more time with Unathi from Idols."

Source: Briefly News

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Privie Kandi (Entertainment Editor) Privilege Kandi is an entertainment news editor (joined Briefly in 2022). A Journalism and Mass Communication graduate from the Christian College of Southern Africa (2016), she has been in the arts and entertainment industry for six years. Privie has worked for the Zimbabwe International Film and Festival Trust as a communications officer and a writer and TV producer for lifestyle and entertainment channel CME TV. She passed a set of trainings by Google News Initiative. You can reach her at privie.kandi@briefly.co.za.