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TOP:HlomlablastedhiswifeBrendahon
socialmedia,claimingshe’dhadanaffair
witha manhereferredtoas“@chiskop”.
ABOVE:Hlomlaandex-wifeCandy
Litchfield.Theydivorcedin 2013 buthad
reportedlybeenlivingapartsince2007.
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grown.Thisrelationshipmadehim
a responsibleman.Hewastherefor
h er.
“Afteryourwifeallegedlycheats
onyouthereisnootherwaybutto
lethergo.Hisegois bruisedbecause
theywerehappy.Hedidn’tseethis
onecoming.”
“Ithinkit’sa verysensitivematter
totalkabout,”saysanotherinsider
closetoHlomla. “It’ssomethingyou
can’tevenaskpeopleabout.”
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HISis Hlomla’ssecondmar-
riage.Theactor,whorose
tofameasminemanager
DerekNyathiinSABC3’s
Isidingobackin1998,was
previously married to
actressCandyLitchfield.
HlomlaandCandyfiledfordivorce
in 2013 buthadreportedlybeenliving
apartsince2007.
CityPressreportedhehadfathered
threechildrenoutofwedlockwithfor-
merMissCityPressNkeleMotsomi,air
hostessSisandaGqiranaandBrendah,
whilehewasmarriedtoCandy.
Atthetime,Hlomlaconfirmedto
News24thathismarriagehadbroken
down,butdeniedit wasbecausehehad
fatheredchildrenoutsideofit.
“It’scommonknowledgethatCan-
didaandI split awhileback.Our
divorcehasbeenfinalisedandshehas
notbeenmywifeforsomeyearsnow,”
hesaidina statement.
“WhenI fatheredmychildren,we
hadalreadyseparated.ItisfalsethatI
fathered the children while I was with
Candida.”
Known to keep his private life out of
the public eye, he refused to reveal the
reasons behind their break-up, saying
only: “As with any divorce, it is the
inability to find common ground.”
Hlomla also denied his marriage to
Candy collapsed because he was cheat-
ing with Brendah.
Eight months ago Hlomla and Candy
attended Shona and Connie Ferguson’s
17th wedding anniversary party but
they don’t seem to be back together, a
guest at the party says.
“They were not cosy or anything like
that. They were mingling with everyone
but you’d never know.”
Two years after he and Candy split,
Hlomla wed Brendah after a whirlwind
romance. Now it seems there’s little
love lost between the two.D
RUMhaslearnt the couple
have entered into an agree-
ment that bars them from
discussing issues that
could tarnish each other’s
image.
It’s not known if the legal agreement
stems from Hlomla’s recent meltdown
on social media.
In a series of tweets the actor shared
images, which he claimed were that of a
man whom he refers to as “Chiskop”. In
his social-media post, he accused the
man of having an affair with his wife.
“Whena manentersyourhouse,
getsintimatewithyourwifewhileyour
children are IN THE HOUSE knowing
full well that you are the husband, and
then publicised their pictures on social
media for the world to see, what is
meant to happen?” he wrote.
“Any thoughts,” Hlomla continued,
tagging the guy.
However, some of his Twitter followers
weren’t impressed with him airing his
wife’s dirty laundry in public like that.
Some even told him it was in fact
karma dealing with him, and that he
was angry because he got a taste of his
own medicine.
“Revenge is a dish best served cold,”
one social-media user wrote on Twitter.
“The cheater got cheated.”
Hlomla has since removed the tweets
accusing Brendah of cheating, but he
did clap back on social media.
“It’s cute when trolls judge you based
solely on tabloids that were disproved
years ago.
“But continue vomiting your hurts
about men that hurt you on me,” he
wrote.
In another post he said: “So for the
record, now that it’s out, I don’t regret
hurting. I’m human. I regret succumb-
ing to social pressures of bottling my
hurt and storing it for so long that it
came out this way.
“That’s what I was taught. To show
strength. I will do better by my boys.
#Toxicmasculinity.”
Both Hlomla and Brendah can now
start their healing processes. Their friend
says Brendah has moved to Dainfern,
north of Johannesburg, while Hlomla
stays in their marital home in Observa-
tory.
“They are both hurting,” our source
says. “They’ve built a home together,
now they have to go their separate ways.
It’s not easy.”After four short years the former love-
birdshavelostthepassionthatseemed
toburnsobrightlyintheirmanysocial-
media snaps.
They refuse to be drawn on it though
and both are tight-lipped about their
separation.
Hlomla refused to comment when we
contacted him.
“I don’t want to talk about that,” he
said before hanging up.
Brendah didn’t respond to calls and
messages sent to her.NEWS