IF YOU didn’t know better, you’d never say they had a very public break-up just a few years ago. He dumped her for the queen of the Mzansi entertainment scene and she was left holding a baby and nursing a bruised ego and a sore heart.
She put on a brave face and got on with it – after all, DJ Zinhle is no wilting wallflower. But true love will find a way and the music-maker and AKA got back together again. However, if she’d hoped the public would be happy for her, she would’ve been sorely disappointed. People took to social media calling Zinhle everything from desperate to an ambassador of forgiveness, but she isn’t letting it get to her.
Yes, they’ve had their ups and downs; yes, she was hurt; and yes, she’s moved on from the past with her heart on her sleeve. “We are not hiding the fact we are back together,” Zinhle tells DRUM.
“We are at a point in our relationship where we do not care too much about what people think. All we are concerned about is creating an environment that’s great for our child and making sure her childhood is filled with beautiful memories with Mommy and Daddy.”
But don’t be fooled into thinking she took AKA back purely for the sake of their child. “The decision to be with the father of my child has nothing to do with my child. If there’s an opportunity to reconcile, and I feel I want it, I will take a chance because I don’t want to question myself four years later,” she told Enhle Mbali in a podcast earlier this year.
Despite public opinion, Zinhle tells us she doesn’t regret her decision to get back with the rapper. “We are very comfortable in the relationship. Things are easier this time around and we don’t worry much about people’s opinions,” she says.
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