Radio and TV personality Tracey Lange is officially off the market, ouens.
The bubbly DJ dropped a bombshell on Instagram last week when she announced her engagement to her long-time berk, Avukile Mabombo.
Tracey posted a sweet snap of her and Avukile hugging mekaar, framed by an engagement ring.
She captioned her picture: “It’s been our secret for a while and now we’re ready to share it,” and ended off her post with the hashtag #Engaged.
Tracey currently hosts the 9am to 12pm slot on KFM and is also a presenter on TV shows Bravo and Tussen Ons.
While mense flooded her social media with well wishes, Tracey tells the Daily Voice that she has been engaged “for quite a while now” but only decided to share the news last week.
The couple had been travelling all over the world and their Instagram accounts are filled with recent travel pics.
Tracey says the trip was a blast as their busy schedules don’t allow for much time to “switch off”.
After all the exotic places they’ve been to, she says Avukile proposed at home.
“We got engaged in Cape Town, in our space. We met seven years ago at a mutual friend’s birthday party, but we’ve been together for just over five years,” she says.
“Due to very crazy work schedules and both of us loving what we do, we battle to switch off. So it’s always just much easier to go travelling, hence we are travelling as much as we do.
“In the last three years we’ve visited 17 countries, New York was the last one in July where we went to celebrate my friend’s 30th birthday.”
Tracey says she got a lekker skrik when Avukile suddenly popped the big question.
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It’s been our secret for a while and now we’re ready to share it ❤️ #Engaged
A post shared by Tracey Lange(@traceylange) on Sep 11, 2019 at 3:12am PDT
“I laughed and was very surprised as he knows that I was quite happy never getting married. I’m wired very differently and see marriage as just a formality, but I was and am happy (about the proposal).”
Avukile was born in Mthatha, but now lives in Cape Town.
He is the Group Marketing Manager of Protea Hotels by Marriott and took to Instagram on Sunday to show off his future missus: “Yoh, look at the future Mrs Mabombo”, he wrote with a picture of Tracey standing beside him, wearing matching maroon outfits and rocking her engagement ring.
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Yoh look at the future Mrs Mabombo 😍 #YourStory2019 c/o @guidogriffin
A post shared by Avukile Mabombo(@avukile) on Sep 14, 2019 at 11:38am PDT
The couple has not yet set a wedding date.