Cele tells ad hoc committee that Anele Tembe may have been murdered

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Ntokozo Khumalo

24 October 2025 | 6:53

Tembe died after falling from the 10th floor of a hotel in Cape Town in 2021, while allegedly in the company of her fiancée, AKA.

Cele tells ad hoc committee that Anele Tembe may have been murdered

FILE: Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes (left) with his late fiance Anele 'Nellie' Tembe (right).

Former police minister Bheki Cele said that Anele Tembe, the fiancée of rapper Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes, may have been murdered. 

This was part of Cele's testimony on Thursday at Parliament's ad hoc committe probing alleged police corruption.

Tembe died after falling from the 10th floor of a hotel in Cape Town in 2021, while allegedly in the company of AKA.

Cele told the committee that police investigating the death did not rule out murder.

"I went to the president, personally. I said: 'Mr President, your minister of police is going to do something funny. He's going to support the private prosecution'. And the prosecutor refused to give certificate. So you can't prosecute, you can't give certificate. So you're stuck in the middle. But now I know that that inquest, the magistrate that is there now is asking the question, why this thing was not enrolled? Because it's an obvious case. You should ask the prosecutor that did not enroll it in this Western Cape."

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