An exchange of subtweets between sports broadcaster Robert Marawa and his fiancée, actress Pearl Thusi, has landed them under serious surveillance from Twitter jury.
Scepticism and guesswork is all that surrounds the couple’s much-anticipated wedding that remains a mystery to us all.
It all came to a head on Monday on the social media platform, where the couple have a combined 1.5 million followers. In South Africa, Marawa posted a tweet that offered a definition of the terms “unfinished business” as “nagging, unresolved, unexpressed or withheld feelings, memories and events of hurt, anger and resentment towards another person” that drain one of emotional energy.
No one would have made much of the tweet if Thusi, in New York, had not quote-tweeted it with a “lol” and then followed that up with a tweet that read: “You subtweeted me but you have my number…”. The tweet included a “But why?” meme, a confused emoji and the hashtags #thisisalsoasubtweet and #atweetforatweet.
Marawa, it seems, then blocked Thusi. Her quote-tweet indicated his tweet was unavailable, but it was not deleted from his feed – which means that Thusi could no longer access his feeds.
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City Press spoke independently to three friends of Thusi and Marawa who do not want to be named. They said that they were concerned that the relationship was in trouble, adding that the couple was working on it and that they believed infidelity could be a cause of the “unfinished business”.
According to the publication, the friends confirmed that the two had had a bad fight just before Thusi left South Africa, after her last visit home to record a new season of popular TV series Lip Sync Battle, which she hosts.
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On Friday, Thusi shared pictures of herself in a cream-coloured Thula Sindi frock attending the opening of the New York African Film Festival, where Akin Omotoso’s movie, Vaya, was the opening-night selection. Her happiness was contradicted by this tweet, sent earlier in the day: “When you feel most unloved & misunderstood… is when you grow up & learn to love & understand yourself (sic).” Marawa tweeted about sports for the rest of the week.
However, a source close to the two recently told Drum that the reports are false. “Those reports are not true. Pearl and Robert are still together and very happy with each other. They haven’t broken up or had any kind of a tiff,” the source told DRUM.
Another source who is also in the couple’s close circle confirms that they have not split, “They are still very much in love and will see each other soon. Whoever started these stories was mislead. Robert and Pearl are still together and in love,” the source explained to DRUM.
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