PRETORIA – The father of slain South African rap star Kiernan “AKA” Forbes has slammed the Madlanga Commission for airing footage of his son’s killing.
The Commission showed footage depicting the murder of AKA last Friday during the testimony of Sergeant Fannie Nkosi.
Tony Forbes, who wrote to the commission on Tuesday, said while he respected its work, he found the public display of the footage "extremely insensitive and careless".
“It was not necessary in the context of the line questioning; the question was about why this video was forwarded. Instead, now, we must leave through all of this and the whole of South Africa sees my son being shot in cold blood," Forbes said.
“I cannot understand how the commissioners in all their wisdom have become so hardened that they would just carelessly displayed that footage. They could’ve shown a screenshot. I seek an explanation from the commission about this.”
In his letter, Forbes said the footage, which was all over the internet when AKA was murdered, was at some point mostly unavailable for download.