adminDURBAN. – South African rapper Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, famously known as AKA died under a hail of bullets last Friday and his brutal murder continues to be the talk of the continent.
He was due to perform at a Durban nightclub, YUGO, as part of his birthday celebrations.
An assassin pumped a number of bullets into his head, killing him instantly, before fleeing from the scene.
It’s yet another high-profile murder of a music superstar in South Africa.
Here are South African musicians killed by gunshots:
l LUCKY DUBE
Lucky Philip Dube was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian considered to be one of the most important musicians in the history of African music and one of the greatest reggae musicians of all time.
On 18 October 2007, Lucky Dube was killed in Rosettenville, a suburb in southern Johannesburg.
l TALIEP PETERSEN
Taliep Petersen was a South African singer, composer and director of a number of popular musicals.
He worked most notably with David Kramer, with whom he won an Olivier Award.
Petersen, a practising Muslim, was twice married and fathered six children.
He was shot dead at his home on 16 December 2006.
l DEON VAN DER WALT
Deon van der Walt was a South African tenor.
He died on November 29, 2005, at his family’s vineyard in South Africa, after he was reportedly shot by his father after a row at the family’s Veenwouden wine estate.
l TEBOGO MADINGOANE
Tebogo Madingoane was a South African recording artist. He rose to fame as a member of the South African music group, Mafikizolo, with Nhlanhla Nciza and Theo Kgosinkwe.
Tebogo Madingoane was shot and killed on February 14, 2004 during an altercation with another motorist.
Meanwhile, a crack team of KwaZulu-Natal detectives are poring over hundreds of hours of video footage, interviewing scores of people and trawling social media for any and every clue that could lead them to arresting the people behind the murders of AKA and his close friend Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane.
KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Police Commissioner, Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, speaking on Newzroom Afrika said that detectives were in the process of tracing the movements of the hitmen backwards in an effort to identify the killers.
He believes that AKA was the main target of the hit and his friend, Motsoane, was struck during cross fire.
“Our strategy is to trace the incident from the shooting backwards. How those people got to the spot (of the crime scene), what was their communication and what were their movements.
“The investigation that we are rolling out and the strategy we are employing is that we are tracing it back – from the shooting backwards, as to how those people get called to that spot from the first place and everything else that involves their communication, their movements, and so forth,” he said. – IOL/thenationalineng.net.
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter