AKA’s Death Sparks Recall of Anele Tembe’s Father’s Emotional Funeral Speech – Here Is What He Said

The father of AKA's late fiancée, Anele "Nellie" Tembe, Moses Tembe, gave a eulogy at her funeral that is now being remembered in South Africa.

This follows a statement from the family on Saturday morning confirming AKA's death.

There has been speculation in South Africa that AKA was the target of a hit ordered by Anele Tembe's father, which led to the rapper being shot dead by unidentified assailants as he left a restaurant on Friday night.

The cause of Anele's death at the Pepperclub Hotel in Cape Town, where she fell from the 10th floor, is also unknown. Police have launched an investigation, but no one has been arrested.

In a letter read on his behalf by a close friend, Sandile Zungu, Anele Tembe's father vehemently denied claims that his daughter committed suicide and had been suicidal for most of her life.

South Africans were led to believe that AKA was responsible for the death of Anele's father's daughter. Here is what Anele's father said:


“I wasn’t there when Anele met her fate last Sunday. I neither seek to attack any person nor cast aspersions nor create suspicions or stigmatise any mental condition.

However, I can’t allow an unfortunate narrative to go unchallenged. A narrative that irks me no end as a father, which maliciously pervades some circles, that Anele, my daughter, was chronically suicidal or had suicidal tendencies.

All I can say is that, until she turned 21, Anele wouldn’t consider taking her life as a solution. Not a single member of my family, Anele’s family, will have ever associated Anele with suicide; It never arose. Living would not have been Anele’s challenge. On the contrary, Anele loved herself so much, she wanted to live more rather than less.

As Anele’s father, I hereby state categorically that Anele was neither suicidal nor did she commit suicide.

Ladies and gentlemen, we need to understand the forces that put us in a situation that we find ourselves. Of course, we must as a matter of extreme priority deal with the scourge that bedevils our youth. Alcohol, which is overused and drugs, especially if we envisage our youth contributing meaningfully to our nation-building and economic development efforts.

Fellow south Africans we better wake up and smell the coffee. We have a serious problem with substance abuse and add to that other social ills, then we are in a crisis.”