A book about AKA and Anele's relationship, When Love Kills: The Tragic Tale of AKA and Anele, will be released this week.
On the third anniversary of the death of his daughter Anele Tembe, Moses Tembe said he was in love with Anele's fiance AKA, dispelling suspicions that the Tembe family was involved in the rapper's murder.
“I disagree with anyone who claims Keenan murdered our daughter. I say we need to lead with evidence and that the evidence will show us exactly what happened. '', declared Tembe in a roundtable discussion with state broadcaster SABC.
Anele died on April 11, 2021, when she fell from the 10th floor of the Pepper Club Hotel in Cape Town during a weekend stay with AKA, who was scheduled to perform at the APIEP Lifestyle Lounge.
The ambiguity surrounding her death led people to believe that Keenan “Alias” Forbes was assassinated, with rumors swirling that his murder was in retaliation for Tembe's death, and rumors on social media that Anele's The father was named as one of the suspects.
AKA was shot dead outside a restaurant in Durban in 2023.
“It is unfortunate and obviously a painful experience to hear people making such insinuations and claims,” Tembe said.
“The people making these claims are faceless people, and no one is coming forward and saying, “I have this evidence, and I'm making a claim based on these facts.''
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“I loved Keenan very much.”
Tembe first met AKA at Run Joji The rapper performed with an orchestra, but AKA did not reveal which orchestra performed, as he performed with a 30-piece orchestra first in Pretoria and then in Durban.
“I didn't know anything about Keenan. I wasn't interested in this kind of music, but I said if he can play with an orchestra, he must be something,” said the Durban native. businessman said.
“Up until that point, no matter what people said about him, I never gave him the benefit of the doubt until the last day. I loved Keenan so much.”
“For us as a family, and especially for me as the head of the family, I kept saying to our children, our parents, and everyone affected by this: Treat Keenan like your own child. That is our attitude and remains our attitude to this day.”
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Last week, author Melinda Ferguson confirmed that a book about the couple will be released in April.
with title When Love Kills: The Tragic Story of AKA and Anelethis book is published by NB-Uitgewers/Publishers.
Mr. Ferguson said his motivation for writing this book was as follows: “An attempt to understand a story about two people who fell down a rabbit hole of toxic love. Something drove me to keep searching for some kind of truth about what happened,” the author wrote himself. wrote on his Facebook account.
“And why did they both die…I've been through my own hell in life as an addict and as someone who embarked on a dangerous, compulsive relationship.” 's story spoke to me. It literally broke my heart,'' Ferguson declared.
Ferguson is the author of the book Kelly Khumalo. Kelly Khumalo's story It was published in 2012.
In 2005 she released got hitThe book details the downward spiral into addiction that led her to heroin and crack cocaine.
Ms Ferguson said she found it distressing that 22-year-old Anele's voice was not as clear in the upcoming book.
“Apart from a few statements on social media, there is no record of her speaking in public or giving any interviews. She had not yet made a name for herself, so there is no record of any important characters in this story. I had to rely on what other people said.”
“In the last moments of Anelle's life, as she fell from the 10th floor of the Pepper Club in Cape Town and lay on the tar, she uttered the words 'Help me' quietly. As I got deeper and deeper into her writing, I felt her calling grow louder and louder. ”
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