Social media abuzz with Sexwale divorce
2013-02-11 08:35
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Durban - Twitter was abuzz on Sunday after the Sunday Times
revealed that the senior Cabinet minister embroiled in a messy divorce was
Tokyo Sexwale.
The news was picked up by the foreign media, with Britain's Telegraph describing Sexwale’s union to Judy van Vuuren as a “marriage made in
post-apartheid heaven”.
“She was a young white paralegal from a middle class Cape
Town family, he was a dashing former Robben Island detainee with a promising
political future.
“But 20 years to the day, it has emerged that their union
has dissolved in acrimony and the stage is set for one of the biggest and most
sensational divorce trial in the Rainbow Nation’s history,” it reported.
Former Talk 702 presenter and Sexwale’s niece Kanalelo
(@kaysexwale) tweeted: “I love my family. All of them. Being the loudmouth I am
- I won’t pretend I don’t hurt when their lives become dissected by press.”
Comedian Simmi Areff (@simmiareff) offered a humorous take
with: “Tokyo Sexwale is Minister of Human Settlements. Now he will also be
Minister of Human Settlements out of court.”
Not everyone on Twitter seemed to think Sexwale would feel
it in his pocket.
Judith Baxter (@judebax): “If Tokyo’s wealth is around
2Billion, what his wife is asking for is certainly not much after 20 years of
marriage.”
Others took the newspaper to task for devoting its front
page to the Sexwale divorce and underplaying more important news.
Zeyad Davids ?@zedavids tweeted: “According to the Sunday
Times front-page, the Sexwale divorce deserves more prominence than the Anene
Booysen story. #PatheticJournalism”
Newspapers reported details of Judy Sexwale's claim last
week, in which she has asked, among other things, for a R70m house, R3m to
furnish it, a new R1m car every five years and monthly maintenance of R150 000.
The couple have two children who are no longer minors.
