Late Anele Tembe's father, Moses Tembe, has revealed that he loved his son-in-law, alias Keenan Forbes.
The Durban-based businessman said in an interview. SABC News Reporter Criselda Ruiz, three years after her daughter's death.
Ms Anele, popularly known as 'Neri', died after falling from the 10th floor of the Pepper Club Hotel on Loop Street in Cape Town on April 11, 2021. At the time, she was with a hip-hop artist who was murdered. Less than two years later, on February 10, 2023, she was in Durban.
“I loved Keenanan.”
During the interview, Tembe said he stressed the importance of treating the award-winning rapper as a son as he has become part of the family.
“AKA wasn't just a boyfriend. AKA was a fiancé and approached us. [because] He wanted to marry our daughter. We also accepted him as our son,” he said.
When asked if he liked the musician, Tembe replied, “Definitely.”
“I loved AKA and I believe I'll be the first to tell you that AKA never did anything wrong in front of me. He never said anything wrong. I like him very much.
“No matter what people say about him, I never gave him any doubts until the last day. I loved AKA very much,” he added.
Although the family tried to remain objective, Tembe said they needed to hear AKA's explanation, which was why an autopsy was to be carried out into Anele's death.
“It has always been important to the family to put the AKA on the box, whether it's the witness or the defendant. For us, proper closure requires the presence of the last person who was with our daughter. .”
About Anele Tembe's death and how his family treated him
Two weeks after AKA's murder, his posthumous album, mass country, released. One of the songs titled, Diary (anxiety), the rapper revealed that he lost Anele. He also mentioned how the Tembe family disowned him after her death.
“It's impossible not to feel pain. Nothing can compare to the feeling you get when you go back through your memory banks and see that frame. It fried my brain forever,” he raps. did Diary (anxiety).
He further claimed that there was no communication from the Tembe family to the family after Anele's funeral.
“I gave it everything I had. How do you put a cap on and not even call my mom or dad after we break up to deliver the casket? That's crazy. Passive-aggressive Don't worry about Bheki Cele, he wasn't even in the program. I wrote a speech and sat down and there was nothing. My name was nowhere to be found. “It was,” he continued.
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