AKA’s Assassination: Police Confirm They Have an Idea of Who Murdered Late Rapper but Are Yet To Make Arrests

AKA’s Assassination: Police Confirm They Have an Idea of Who Murdered Late Rapper but Are Yet To Make Arrests

  • The police have vowed to never rest until those who murdered South African rapper, Kiernan Forbes are brought to book
  • A recent report by the SAPS confirmed that they were still conducting investigations but have an idea of who the murderers are
  • AKA was gunned down alongside his friend Tebello "Tibz" Motsoane on Friday 10 February and was laid to rest in a private funeral on 18 February

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The South African police are confident that they are close to catching AKA's killers. The police confirmed that they are still conducting investigations and will leave no stone unturned.

AKA and Tibz
The police have revealed that they are still investigating AKA and Tibz's murders. Image: @akaworldwide and @tebello.motsoane
Source: Instagram

Investigators have been going through different video footage from the night of the murder and are piecing together the evidence.

Police say they can't disclose the suspected killers' identities yet

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According to Daily Sun, KZN commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi confirmed that they were still carrying out investigations but they have an idea of who the murderers are. He said:

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"The identification of people seen on the videos is something we cannot disclose at the moment, but we have ideas of who they might be. We are continuing with the investigations.
"We have not yet arrested anyone, but we have interviewed different people and obtained statements. We have also collected cell phones and are busy downloading some of them. We have also received our ballistic report from forensics, so there's still work the team is busy with."

AKA was laid to rest in a private funeral on Saturday 18 February, after an emotional memorial service the day before.

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Kairo comforts Nadia Nakai and grandmother at AKA memorial service, Mzansi heartbroken: “This made me cry”

In more news about AKA, Briefly News reported that a clip of Kairo Forbes comforting Nadia Nakai is doing the rounds on social media. AKA's daughter gave her late daddy's girlfriend a shoulder to cry on during his memorial service at the Sandton Convention Centre on Friday afternoon, 17 February.

Kairo also comforted her grandmother when the music industry celebrated AKA's life. Nadia Nakai was the slain rapper's bae at the time of his death. He was fatally shot in Durban last Friday, 10 February.

Kairo is AKA's daughter of a former girlfriend, DJ Zinhle. The clip of the brave little girl comforting Nadia is trending on Twitter.

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Privie Kandi (Entertainment Editor) Privilege Kandi is an entertainment news editor (joined Briefly in 2022). A Journalism and Mass Communication graduate from the Christian College of Southern Africa (2016), she has been in the arts and entertainment industry for six years. Privie has worked for the Zimbabwe International Film and Festival Trust as a communications officer and a writer and TV producer for lifestyle and entertainment channel CME TV. She passed a set of trainings by Google News Initiative. You can reach her at privie.kandi@briefly.co.za.