By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
Police Minister Bheki Cele said it’s just a matter of time before the people responsible for rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes and his friend, Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane’s murders are brought to book.
Cele provided a progress update of the murder investigation to the media in Cape Town on Friday.
According to the police minister, the investigation was now at an advanced stage and it was just “a matter of time” before the culprits are arrested.
“The fact that the getaway car was found, the gun itself has been found, some of the witnesses I’m told are in protection order, means it’s a case that has really covered some ground. We just need to get that particular person,” Cele said.
AKA died after he was fatally shot at pointblank range in the back of his head in Florida Road, Durban, on Friday, 10 February. Durban police confirmed the death of the 35-year-old rapper on the scene.
He was standing outside the Wish Restaurant, in Durban’s bustling Florida Road, at about 10pm when he was approached by a gunman who shot him “execution style” before fleeing the scene on foot.
There was a second gunman on the scene and Motsoane, who was with his friend at the time, was also tragically shot and killed while the rapper’s bodyguard was wounded.
AKA was due to perform at Yugo nightclub, in Durban, later that evening.
Police were reportedly investigating members of a family involved in taxi operations, as well as the so-called construction mafia in KwaZulu-Natal.
The quoted sources in the security cluster who claimed that AKA and Motsoane were followed from King Shaka International Airport to the popular restaurant.
“The police have already obtained the footage that reveals that there was surveillance by the [alleged] hitmen who later carried out the hit outside Wish restaurant in Durban.”
“This family is powerful and feared,” one of the sources revealed.
Another source went as far as to claim that one of the suspects was also spotted at the crime scene after AKA’s fiancée Anele “Nellie” Tembe plunged to her death from the 10th floor of Cape Town’s Pepperclub Hotel in the early hours of 11 April 2021.