Preparations ahead of South African 🇿🇦 rapper AKA’s Memorial service at the Sandton Convention Centre are going according to plan. Amongst the people expected at the service are industry colleagues including Moozlie, Sizwe Dlomo, Anati, Yanga Chief and Oskido. #RIPAKA AKA’s Memorial Service to be broadcasted live On SABC 1 at 3pm today… Only those who got the tickets 🎟️ can go to the venue, if you don’t Have Tickets they won’t give you access.
There will also Be Live Streams…. Tickets were free and they were Finished within 3hours after being made Available to the public… May His soul Rest In Peace… He Always carried the South African Flag 🇿🇦 with him on Stage!!!! Rest Megacy.
The funeral and memorial service of Kiernan ‘AKA‘ Forbes will take place later this week, the rapper’s family confirmed in a statement released on Tuesday.
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The Prada rapper will be laid to rest in a private ceremony reserved for family, close friends and his peers, on Saturday, 18 February 2023.
The funeral and memorial details for South African rapper Kiernan Jarryd Forbes — stage name AKA — have been announced. The details were shared in a statement by the Forbes family on the 35-year-old’s Twitter page earlier today. The Lemonade singer was shot on Friday evening in Durban, Kwa Zulu-Natal outside Wish restaurant where he had been dining with friends.
AKA’S FUNERAL DETAILS ANNOUNCED
Local rapper AKA, who died on 10 February last week, will be laid to rest on Saturday 18 February in a private ceremony. Taking to Twitter earlier today, his family released a statement sharing details of the funeral and memorial service which, unlike the funeral, will be open to the public.
“We as the Forbes family would like to acknowledge the outpouring of love we have received over the past few days. Kiernan wasn’t just loved by us as a family but by the nation, as we’ve seen from loved ones, friends, industry colleagues, media tributes, and the Megacy,” read the statement.
“It is our wish to celebrate the life of giving with those he touched and impacted through his gift of music. The memorial will therefore be open to the public as well as streamed online. Kiernan will be laid to rest in a private provincial funeral on Saturday 18 February 2023,” reads the statement.
It goes on to reveal that the date of the memorial service is Friday 17 February 2023 at 3 pm at the Sandton Convention Centre. Limited free tickets to the memorial are available on WebTickets. The statement also thanked DJ Zinhle’s “husband” Murdah Bongz’s (Bongani Mohosana) for the support but noted that he will not be present at the funeral. This is due to observing cultural protocol.