'Dear John' dump just a text away

26 July 2016 - 08:43 By AZIZZAR MOSUPI

Once reserved for girlfriends and wives away from their soldier partners deployed overseas, the "Dear John" break-up letter has now evolved into texts or social media posts. Reports surfaced on Sunday that popular soccer player Itumeleng Khune and girlfriend Sbahle Mpisane are no longer together.Sunday World reported that the fitness instructor took to social media to announce that they were no longer seeing each other."Not everything works out the way you wish for it to do. Some situations are worth removing yourself away from! I am no longer dating the Kaizer Chiefs and Bafana Bafana goalkeeper any more sadly," reads a caption accompanying an Instagram shot of the pair in happier times.The post prompted commentary that Mpisane used social media to dump the soccer star.She has since deleted the post and other pictures of herself and the soccer player.Dumping someone via social media is not all that uncommon.Samuel Pinney, in a report in The Daily Telegraph, told how his girlfriend dumped him on Facebook."First came the announcement online of my new 'single' status. Deftly inserted into Facebook's running newsfeed, it informed everyone that both she and I knew that I had been dumped," he said.Celebrities such as Katy Perry and Taylor Swift have been given the love axe via text message.Dorothy Black, columnist and author of The Dot Spot: Adventures in Love and Sex, says while this trend may seem shocking at first glance, one needs to take into consideration the quality of the relationship...

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