Sonia Booth singlehandedly ruptured the internet with her exposé of the shoddy shenanigans her husband and ex-Mamelodi Sundowns defender, Matthew, allegedly got up to with fitness guru Bongani Mthombeni-Möller.
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The mother of two set social media alight on Monday with a series of posts exposing the sordid love affair Booth was allegedly involved in with Mthombeni-Möller, a married woman who’s worked closely with the ex-footballer for years.
Turns out, a private investigation into the former Bafana Bafana defender’s dealings pulled the curtain on his extramarital affair with the fitness guru. Neither Mthombeni-Möller nor Matthew has surfaced to address the cheating scandal.
According to Sonia, however, the former footballer has tried to reach out to her since ‘Cheesecake-Gate’ and “sending people to [her] house to ‘check up on [her]’.”
“Let me save you energy, time, airtime and data. I will never take my life for a man*, not even for your legend. Imagine… ME… Sonia! I survived ICU, for a reason. Now, stop with your pretentious and capricious ‘concerns’, they make me ill,” she wrote.
* Translated from IsiXhosa
The scorned wife also blasted Bongani Mthombeni-Möller as an alleged sugar baby to a “filthy rich 70-something-year-old” man and warned her to not expect much from Matthew since “he isn’t as wealthy as he might have portrayed.”
“‘Peer pressure’ and keeping up with the Motsepes has him dipping his fingers into our son’s education funds for yrs now (sic), a meeting I had with our Investment Banker last week shook me. I’ll be damned!” Booth exclaimed.
At this time, Sonia’s made no statements about the future of her marriage. She did, however, hint at possibly leaking explicit content of the ‘cheesecake’ lovers’ interprovincial escapades, if provoked.
Five things to know about Sonia Booth
Here are five things you need to know about Sonia Booth, the mother of Nathan and Noah and wife of former South African footballer and SuperSport pundit, Matthew.
She is a Miss South Africa runner-up
Sonia Booth was a top model in the late 1990s. In 1999, she represented Southern Africa in the M-Net Face of Africa pageant contest. In 2001, Booth finished second runner-up in the Miss South Africa beauty pageant won by Vanessa Carreira that year.
She is an award-winning business magnate
Sonia Booth, a native of Pimville, Soweto, took the opportunities garnered from her pageant successes in her stride and furthered her education. In 2006, she obtained a BComm degree in Marketing and Business Management and used that knowledge to build up her entrepreneurial portfolio.
In 2008, Sonia founded Booth Sports, a sports merchandise producer, as well as Bonneventia S, a footwear retailer. She also is recognised as the brainchild behind The Booth Education & Sports Trust, a non-profit organisation she and Matthew use to uplift the youth through literature, football skills development and mentoring.
She is a published author
Sonia Booth is also a published author with three books to her name. The first one, How To Reinvent Yourself And Stay Relevant was published in November 2014.
These are the two other books she’s published:
- Surviving ICU (March 2017)
- 2 Years Of Bliss 18 Years Of Batter (December 2021)
She once lived in Orange Farm
Sonia Booth, born Bonneventia Sonia Thandi Kerileng Pule, is a native of Pimville, Soweto, but most of her high school years were spent in Orange Farm.
She is fluent in six languages
Sonia can speak at least six languages, including Russian.