It’s been four long years since the deathof Anele Tembe, and her family are still waiting for answers on what really happened before her fatal fall at the Pepperclub Hotel in Cape Town.
Anele – who at the time was engaged to rapper AKA, real name Kiernan Forbes – died from her injuries after tumbling from the balcony of the couple’s tenth-floor hotel room on 11 April 2023.
Tragically, AKA died two years later in an alleged assassination plot. Both their deaths are being investigated.
REMEMBERING ANELE TEMBE
Friday, 11 April, marks four years since the shock death of Anele Tembe. The 22-year-old – the daughter of Lulu and Moses Tembe – was a qualified chef and social media influencer.
Her death was clouded in suspicion following reports that she quarreled with her fiancé, AKA just moments before.
INSIDE HER FINAL HOURS
At the time of the incident, Anele Tembe and AKA were staying at the five-star Pepperclub Hotel, where the latter had performed in the city.
According to When Love Killsauthor Melinda Ferguson, “crazy stuff” happened at the hotel hours before Anele’s death.
She wrote: “Threesomes and foursomes were allegedly happening in some of the rooms. The alcohol continued to flow, and there was drugs aplenty”.
Melinda – who believes Anele was under strong psychiatric medication – allegedly consumed both alcohol and “mood-altering substances” along with AKA.
The couple argued over Anele’s alleged insecurities and jealousy over her partner’s interactions with female fans, as well as his baby mama, DJ Zinhle.
The author then detailed a sequence of events amid the conflict, which included:
- AKA claimed he went down to reception to book another room, which, according to reports, he did not do.
- Went back to the room, where the argument continued.
- Anele then took off her clothes and reportedly jumped off the balcony while AKA had retreated to the bathroom.
- AKA called reception to ask them to send up security
- She provided an “alternative deadly scenario” in which AKA accidentally or purposefully pushed her off the balcony. This, after both she and Moses Tembe believed Anele tried to end her relationship with AKA.
- Anele was alive for 20 minutes after her fall. AKA did not attend to her.
CONSUMING TEQUILA AFTER TRAGEDY
According to Anele Tembe’s father, Moses, AKA refused to go down and see his fiancée as she lay dying on the pavement. Instead, he went to a room occupied by a member of his entourage.
He said in the book: “Who doesn’t go down and try to help the woman he loves when he sees her lying in the street?
“No one who saw the body of the woman they loved wouldn’t have rushed down to help her. She wasn’t dead.
“When Rob Stefanutto [an eyewitness] approached Anele, she responded by blinking. Within minutes of seeing his fiancee lying on the road, Kiernan orders tequila. Who does that?”
AKA MURDER TRIAL TO GO AHEAD NEXT MONTH
Meanwhile, seven suspects accused of murdering AKA in 2023 will go on trial in the Durban High Court next month.
They are Lindukuhle Mkhwanazi, Lindani Ndimande, Siyanda Eddie Myeza, Mziwethemba Gwabeni, and Lindokuhle Ndimande.
Two years after Anele Tembe’s death, AKA died in a hail of bullets on Florida Road, outside the now defunct Wish restaurant. His close pal Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane – allegedly struck by stray bullets – also died on the scene.
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