Ngelixa oontanga boontanga bakaRichard Gira umoyiki bamongikazi, umlingisi uyaqhubeka ukonwabela iminqweno katatshi. Iqabane lakhe elineminyaka engama-37 ubudala, intatheli yaseSpain, iSpanish Alahandra Silva, yazala umntwana wesibini. Iindaba zokugcwaliswa kwakhona kwintsapho ye-Star yaxelwa uHlelo lweSpanish likaHola!. Umthombo wephephandaba iqinisekisile iindaba zokuzalwa komntwana kwaye wathi ngoku esi sibini sikwindawo yakhe kwiRhanda yakhe e-Sundle Ridge ekude eNew York.
Umntwana waba ngumntwana wesithathu kwi-gir kunye ne-silva, kodwa eyesibini ukuya edibeneyo. URichard unesifo sonyana oneminyaka engama-20, owazalwa ngexesha lobudlelwane beGear onoMzekelo oneminyaka emithandathu, uAlejandra ngunyana oneminyaka emithandathu.
USilva waziwa malunga nokukhulelwa okwesibini ngoNovemba ophelileyo. Kwaye kwiinyanga ezisithoba ngaphambili, wazala umntwana wokuqala kwi-rir, inkwenkwana Alexander.
URichard no-Aleukandra badibana ngo-2014. Umdlali weqonga uyamqhubela ixesha elide, kwaye ngo-2018 uSilva waba ngumfazi wakhe. Esi sibini sidlala umtshato onobunewunewu kwifama ye-gir, apho bahlala khona ngoku. Kudliwanondlebe negiya kunye ne-silva ngobushushu obumangalisayo, baphendula bodwa kwaye bathi banethamsanqa kakhulu ukuba kunye. URichard uzibiza ngokuba "ngoyena mntu uyonwabile kwindalo iphela":
Inkosikazi yam ingumfazi omuhle, onesilumko, onesimo nonyamezelayo obaziyo ukuxolela kwaye uyathanda ukunceda abantu. Kwaye ulungiselela ngokugqibeleleyo kwaye wenza i-fasads elungileyo emhlabeni.
U-Alekandre naye uthi i-gir inomdla kuye kwaye yonke imihla imangalisa into anokuyenza ukuze inyukele kuwe.
