The late Kiernan Forbes. Image: Instagram/@AKA
‘Catch you in Eswatini’: AKA’s old X post shocks fans amid ‘killers’ arrests
AKA’s fans, the Megacy, have dug up an old X post the late rapper published on 28 February 2019 about Eswatini.
The late Kiernan Forbes. Image: Instagram/@AKA
If you go to the search bar on social media platform X, and type the words “there’s an AKA tweet for everything”, you are bound to see several quoted posts by his fans in response to various old posts published by the slain hip pop artist. But what are the odds that you’d come across one of his posts about Eswatini – published five years ago on 28 February – the same week his alleged killers would be arrested in South Africa’s neighbouring country?
OLD AKA POST RESURFACES
AKA’s fans were left wide-eyed after a 2019 post by the late superstar resurfaced. The post reads: “Catch you in Eswatini tomorrow ya [sic] heard!!!”
Of course, the musician was referring to a gig in Eswatini when he posted it, but for his fans, even the words “catch you” are somewhat prophetic.
SEVENTH SUSPECT ARRESTED
On Tuesday, 27 February, the South African Police Services (SAPS) revealed that six suspects were arrested in connection with AKA and his friend and business partner Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane’s death. The seventh suspect was arrested the next day.
According to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) police commissioner, Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, two of the suspects were arrested in Eswatini.
Five suspects will appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, 29 February.
The other two suspects, believed to be brothers, appeared before a magistrate in Manzini, central Eswatini, on Tuesday as they have to be extradited to South Africa.
AKA WAS FOLLOWED FROM THE AIRPORT BEFORE BEING MURDERED
AKA and Tibz were shot and killed outside Wish Restaurant on Florida Road in Durban on 10 February 2023.
The elaborate assassination plot reveals that the Company hitmaker was followed from the King Shaka International Airport upon landing in Durban.
“The organiser initially followed Mr Forbes from the airport on arrival all the way to the hotel as well as to the restaurant where the incident happened. This person was also responsible for gathering resources together, the whole team together, and the rewards that came thereafter,” Mkhwanazi explained.
“The second suspect in custody is the person who supplied the vehicles and firearms, and that person was also linked to two other murder cases. The third one is a shooter who was linked to another murder case.
“We have another spotter who was just outside the restaurant, who is also linked to another case, and another spotter who was outside Wish, who is linked to two other murder cases, and we have the shooter, as a sixth person, who is linked to another murder case.”
