After taking to her social media to mourn the unfortunate passing of her ex-boyfriend, influencer Grace Mondlana has garnered some side eyes as netizens called her out for being inconsiderate.
When it comes to content creation, only a few are doing it like Grace Mondlana. She has risen to become one of South Africa’s most successful social media personalities. With 1.8 million Tik Tok followers, and 532k followers on Instagram, her content has become somewhat of a staple of the Mzansi For You Pages (FYP) and feeds.
Despite her life being so public, Grace has always reiterated how she still wants to keep certain aspects out of the limelight, and this has included her love life. Those who have followed Grace for a while know that there have been speculations along the way. However, the young influencer has done a commendable job in keeping prying eyes and ears out of that aspect of her life.
Recently, Grace took to her social media pages to reveal that for the past week or so, she had been dealing with the harsh reality of grieving the man she considers the love of her life. For the first time since becoming an influencer, she revealed that she and Sipho Zulu had been in a relationship for about five years before they opted to go their separate ways earlier this year. Furthermore, she shared that both she and Sipho had respectively moved on.
As usual, the post quickly gained traction and left the confines of her online community, making its way across various social media fields. Her choice to make her grieving period public when she had kept the relationship hidden for its entirety has sparked many reactions.
Furthermore, some users have condemned the optics of her sharing a post of this intimate and personal nature, when both she and Sipho had allegedly moved on with other people. According to these users, Grace was not considerate of Sipho’s new partner, as her posts contained some intimate moments between her and her late former partner. These users have labeled the content creator as self-centered, noting that she has found a way to make things about herself.
Grace Mondlana is fucking weird man. I hope this current partner learns to love himself and let him go cause this mourning is reflecting as psychosis pic.twitter.com/XNCpeFcS9w
— AYANDA THABETHE CLINGING ONTO HER LIFE POLICY (@Burnerburnerac5) July 7, 2025
Literally asked this few days back, why is Grace Mondlana posting him now?? Why make it about yourself even in sacred moments and I know they will say it’s grief but it’s mostly for herself and not the deceased, it’s giving clout. https://t.co/Ou0rxoIjJT
— sis’omdala (@_yenkosi_m) July 6, 2025
It’s one thing to mourn a recent ex but to play grieving makoti in front of the whole country is so disrespectful to her new partner. That’s the part that’s weird. https://t.co/nX3WL5coJr
— liyamckrazy (@hurricane_liya) July 6, 2025
Contrarily, some users have come out to defend Grace’s actions, highlighting the long history she and Sipho shared. Furthermore, these netizens have expressed how they believe Grace has been at the end of some unwarranted criticism, and deserves more grace from her critics.
Leave Grace Mondlana alone. Allow her to grieve in the way that works for her. Her current partner deserves his flowers, the rest of you haters wanting to dictates how she must grief, back off!
— iNkosazana (@_iNgwanelihle_) July 7, 2025
Okay, I just went to Grace Mondlana’s IG. She’s very justified in how she’s grieving her ex. They broke up in 2025 and we’re just 7 months into the year, the breakup is still fresh considering they were together for 5 years. Let her be
— Ms. Moyana (@marcia_breeze) July 6, 2025
Being with someone for 5 years, then they pass away a few months after you’d broken up.. There’s no way you wouldn’t grieve out loud. Give Grace Mondlana some grace… the way she’s going about it is ‘taboo’ in your eyes but there’s no manual on how to handle grief.
— Ubuhle bale nzwakazi❤ (@_Rendezvouss) July 7, 2025
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