VIDEO OF RAPPER, AKA BREAKING A DOOR WHILE ASSAULTING LATE FIANCEE RELEASED BY FRIEND

    Investigation is ongoing following the release of a video showing South African rapper, Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, popularly known as AKA breaking down a door while trying to get to his late fiancée,  Nelli Tembe during a fight in their Bryanston apartment.

    Tembe's friend revealed to the media that the rapper physically abused his late fiancée several times in their relationship, adding that Tembe told her that AKA smashed her face against a wall during a fight.

    According to her friend, Tembe said she locked herself in the bedroom afterwards but the rapper broke the door to get to her. The friend said Tembe recorded her rapper fiance breaking down the door. 

    While narrating to News24, the friend said; "She then sent me the video of the attack. AKA is so violent in the video that he breaks down the door of the room that Anele had locked herself in, whilst escaping his blows, with his bare hands. This is an attack that I want women to be shielded from,".

Tembe's friend also added that'"In the past few weeks, following the passing of my close friend Anele Tembe, I have been meditating and seeking guidance on what it is that I am to do in order to exercise my rights and to deliver on my responsibilities as a young adult in a country that fails to adequately protest its women and girls," the friend said in a statement to the police.

"The responsibility that I have is towards the many women and girls in this country, especially young women such as myself, who remain impressionable."

    The video of the incident has however been taken to the Cape Town Police, who are conducting an inquiry into Tembe's death.

    Following allegations that he physically abused Tembe, AKA has released a statement on Saturday, May 8, 2021, describing his relationship with Tembe as 'beautiful, yet challenging' and saying he would not be drawn into exposing their troubles as a couple to defend himself against 'one-sided views'.

“What makes it even sadder is the knowledge that some of the people, she and I loved and entrusted with our deepest troubles, are now using those as weapons to set a negative narrative on my character," he said.

    It should be recalled that Tembe died on Sunday, April 11 after she fell off the 10th floor of the Pepperclub Hotel in Central Cape Town.