Institution of marriage in flames

October has been the month of cheating exposés... and we cannot but continue to watch, as if our daily lives are not riddled with the same traumas.

- KEKELETSO NAKELI

Divorce is ugly, break-ups are horrific; now, imagine it all amplified for a country to chime in.

If anything, 2024 has shown the institution of marriage is in flames – the dissolution or the rumours doing the rounds of the imminent splits and confirmed divorces of celebrity couples, often in which infidelity is paramount among the reasons for the not-so-happy endings of these marriages.

We celebrate these unions. We set them as goals because they were breaking the moulds of what we understood the marriage to be. These are young and gifted individuals who came and complimented each other.