AKA’s late iancee’s cell wiped clean
JOHANNEBURG - The cellphone of rapper AKA’s late fiencee Anele Tembe has been wiped clean by mischiefs in an apparent bid to destroy crucial evidence needed to assist the police in their inquest case.
Tembe, who was fondly known as Nelli, died when she allegedly jumped from the balcony of a hotel room in Cape Town after an altercation with the award- winning rapper, real name Kiernan Forbes.
Sunday World understands the police are set to apply for Section 205 of the Criminal Procedure Act to obtain Tembe’s records from her Apple phone, which include text messages and e- mails she received and sent to her close contacts.
Apple
It is also believed that the family has requested the police to ask Apple to assist in retrieving the crucial missing records, a move that is likely to delay the investigation even further.
It was not clear at the time of going to print who might have deleted the records from her cellphone as neither AKA nor Tembe’s family knew her pass code because she kept it secret.
A source who is close to the investigation said Temb’s cellphone was handed over to the family by a close ally after her death.
“The family asked AKA if he knew the pass code, but he told them he had no idea as she kept it secret.”
Them ole said the family and t he police later discovered that Tembe’s phone had been wiped clean and the cellphone records deleted when they examined it during their investigation.
Deleted
Another source, who also did not want to be named for fear of victi - misation, confirmed some records were deleted, but did not know if this happened before or after Tembe’s cellphone was handed over to her family by AKA’s business partner and friend Jabu Nkabinde.
The deep throat said t he cell was later handed over to the police by Tembe’s family.
When the police asked them if they knew her pass code, they told them that they did not have it.
The police later asked AKA’s lawyers if he knew T em be’ s pass code and he too told them that he did not know it.
Password
“The investigating officer only asked his lawyer verbally to ask Kiernan if he knew her phone password as the father claims not to have it, yet they are missing bitchy comments in reference to DJZinhlef rom her social media that she made the day before her suicide.
“That being a confirmation that whoever was in possession of her phone deleted those comments a week after her funeral,” said the tipster.
Another source also said AKA was livid that information on Tembe’s cellphone records was deleted.
He reiterated t hat Tembe’s bitchy comments she had made about Zinhle, who has a child with the rapper, had been deleted.