Six suspects connected with the murder of popular rapper, Kiernan Forbes (AKA) and his close friend, celebrity chef and entrepreneur Tebello “Tibz” Motshoane, have been arrested by South African Police.
Gatekeepers News reports that the duo were murdered on February 10, 2023, while walking with a friend outside a popular Durban restaurant hours before he was to perform at a nearby club.
According to the police, the suspects are to appear in court on Thursday.
“It was clear that AKA was monitored from the airport and Tibz was not the intended target in the murder on Florida Road in Durban. We know they were paid for this,” KwaZulu-Natal provincial Police Commissioner, Lt Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, said on Tuesday night.
South Africa Police Minister, Bheki Cele confirmed that the murders of AKA and his friend said to have been caught on Closed-Circuit Television cameras, shocked many residents of the country, which has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
“I hope South Africans will sleep better after this,” he said.
