Springbok rugby captain Siya Kolisi and his wife, Rachel, have announced their decision to part ways after seven years of marriage. In a joint statement released Tuesday on social media, the couple confirmed they have begun divorce proceedings, emphasizing that the decision was made with love, respect, and mutual understanding.
“This decision comes from a place of love, respect, and understanding that this is the best path forward for both of us,” read the statement. “While our relationship as a couple is changing, we remain great friends and committed partners in raising our children with the same love and care they’ve always known. We will also continue working together on the Foundation that means so much to us.”
Siya and Rachel, who married in a beautiful ceremony in Franschhoek in August 2016, first met in 2012 at a dinner party following a rugby match at Newlands. They share two biological children, Nicholas Siyamthanda, born in 2015, and Keziah, born in 2017. In 2014, the couple adopted Siya’s younger half-siblings, Liyema and Liphelo, following the passing of his mother.
The couple’s relationship has been a public journey, marked by challenges and achievements. Rachel, who left her career as an event manager and marketing executive to support the family, played a pivotal role in leading the Kolisi Foundation, a philanthropic endeavor they built together.
Siya Kolisi, 33, has had a storied rugby career, representing South Africa in 89 Test matches and leading the Springboks to back-to-back Rugby World Cup victories in 2019 and 2023. During their marriage, Rachel supported Siya through difficult personal times, including helping him build a family when he was struggling emotionally.
In previous interviews, Siya spoke candidly about Rachel’s unwavering support: “She stayed with me when I was not in a good place. She took in two kids who couldn’t speak a word of English and helped me create a family.”
The couple’s statement did not reveal specific reasons for their split but expressed gratitude for the public’s love and support. They requested privacy as they navigate this personal transition.
“As we move forward, we ask for your respect and understanding,” the statement concluded.
Despite the end of their marriage, Siya and Rachel emphasized that they remain committed to co-parenting their children and continuing their joint work through the Kolisi Foundation, reflecting their shared values of family and service.
Hey Rich, successful Black man marry your kind. Dem white ladies will marry you for your riches if you are rich, she will eventually divorce you for your black riches, she will get a huge share of your riches. Stick to your black nubian beauties… no one beats our black sisters, ohh i know that not all black ladies are right but please a white person never loves a black man
Very judgemental, backwards and downright racist. Check the amount of divorces in all kinds of marriages regardless of the racial identity of the people involved. How do you judge people’s love or not love from a distance? C’mon now!
@Jigga. Ignore this mwannabe lost individual who brags that he has lived abroad for 38 years and doesnt exmplify the traits of a person exposed to a multicultural society by his emotional outbursts and demagogary of his own homeland.
To him the ills of PF are justified and the dips of the economy are a reason to whine.
I support this 100%. Let us be ourselves, marry our own. It’s true, at divorce these ‘other’ brides want a healthy chunk of your money. Look at Tiger Woods.
I agree with you completely, and these foo1s will learn. These white women despise you, and the only reason they ever marry you is out of a calculated elevated prospect of financial gain. Kalusha Bwalya was married to on in Holland, what happened to her when his career wound down?
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And how is this news in Zambia….
Because of HH who has white friends.
They are blaming HH for all divorces involving white people.
They want to distract us from zesco and other such issues
Its the stuff of soapies which Zambians are hooked to.
However, LT forgets we have no interest in rugby even if its world champions are on this continent
@Nostradamus: MOFO what does this sh1t have to do with HH? There has never been a day HH hired a white person in government. The skin-bleaching Congolese pygmy, Frederick Chipuba sold Zambia to white South African Boers, and imported his homosexual Lebanese crooks into Zambia, probably because they are the ones who financed the bullsh1t MMD in 1991. The rotten toothed thief, Michael Satan had a white vice President. All of you were happy your tribesmen were selling Zambia (or rather Tonga land) to white people. Why the hell are you accusing HH of having white friends?
@Tikki: Zesco is a company that generates electricity from Tonga land, granted the rotten toothed tribalist, Michael Satan, tried to steal some of those districts from Southern Province. It did not rain last year; there is no water in the Kasamba bezi (correct Tonga name of the Zambezi) river. Therefore there is no water in the Kaliba (correct Tonga name) Dam.. Why do you expect Zesco to continue producing hydroelectricity where there is no water? What do you want us to do?
@Jigga Kayama Simangulungwa: He is not a racist. He has never gone to the country of white people to discriminate against them. This white woman is in Africa because her parents came to Africa to massacre, decimate, loot and discriminate against Africans. Why some of you fight so hard for these apartheid white types, I do not know. The original poster stated an evident and provable fact. These white women will use for your money. Grow up
When you some of you homos try to screw your boyfriends in the ass, and your little tools fail to rise, as usual, you blame HH. Yes, the maize and beef we have fed you for 60 years, is responsible for 148cm of your 160cm height, but you cannot invite foreigners whose marriages to foreign white women fail, to come and join you in blaming HH for your all of your failures.
@ Mushukulumbwe,You are avengeful,backward,insane ,foolish man,tribalist and self centred maggot who can make zambia go into flames.Chi colour ubu colour nga nabukupesha amano just fold it your dirty bleached soiled pants.Waumfwa
I know I am a tribalist. I am the one who fired all the Lozi, Luvale and Tonga people from the army, police and civil service, and hired on Bemba and Nyanja. I am the one who robbed northwestern and Southern Province to build a oil pipeline to and universities in my province. Obviously the reason why I was able to do all of these things is that I was able to hijack the soul of the rotten toothed sellout Michael Satan and that of the evil Congolese dwarf Frederick Chipuba, as they enacted these policies. You mofos are the ones who will find 5 Lozi, 3 Tonga and 9 Luvale having a concersation, in say English, and then try to impose Bemba or Nyanja on them.