Given Mkhari gives up on his marriage

Wife Ipeleng has vacated couple's Joburg home

- By Qhama Dayile and Ngwako Malatji

Radio guru and businessman Given Mkhari has given up on his marriage to Ipeleng Mkhari. Sunday World can exclusively reveal that Mkhari, who owns Gauteng-based commercial radio station Power FM, has dumped Ipeleng after complaining about how she treated him.

Ipeleng, who is an astute businesswoman, has since moved out of their Joburg home and lives alone in a highend suburb in Gauteng.

The jaw-dropping news of their separation was revealed by three independent sources who are privy to the private life of the powerful estranged couple.

According to the first deep throat, Mkhari, who also owns the Limpopo-based commercial radio station, Capricorn FM, informed Ipeleng in November last year that he no longer wanted to continue with their union as he was tired of it.

The mole, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals, said he told her that she should serve him with divorce papers and warned that if she did not, he would do so himself.

The last straw that broke the camel's back was when Mkhari was taken to hospital against his will in March, allegedly at her behest, when he was under the weather.