On Sunday after Nelli’s passing, it went viral that she committed suicide by after falling from the 10th floor of the Pepper club Hotel in Cape Town. However, her father frowned at those claims.
The prominent South African businessman and Anele “Nelli” Tembe’s father, Moses, has set the record straight on circumstances surrounding her death.
He said, “As Anele’s father, I categorically state that Anele was neither suicidal nor did she commit suicide. We must as a matter of priority deal with the scourge that bedevils our youth. Alcohol which is overused and drugs. Fellow South Africans we better wake up and smell the coffee, we have a serious problem with substance abuse.”
The businessman further revealed that the 22-year-old was never suicidal.
“I cannot allow an unfortunate narrative to go unchallenged, a narrative that irks me to no end … that is ‘Anele was chronically suicidal’. All I can say is, until Anele turned 21, not a single member of her family, my family would have associated her with suicide.”
Speaking of Nelli’s relationship with famous rapper, AKA, the businessman said he expected more than love in their relationship.
“I knew Kiernan loved my daughter but their companionship needed more than love. It had to be premised and embedded on a Godly foundation.”
Moses says he is a happy father as Anele made him proud.
“Anele made me happy as a father, very happy. Anele was feisty, strong-willed some might say. She was single-minded in her pursuits, what others would uncritically call stubborn. Anele never minced her words, an attribute that would perturb her siblings, which she balanced by giving her absolute best to those around her.”
“In my deepest desire that my girl live to be who she wanted to be, I nurtured these Anele traits. For I truly believed that she had needed guidance rather than repression, persuasion rather than brute force,” he said.
