SHE should be 25 years old now, carving a career as SA’s first female Michelin-star-chef-in-the-making, cooking up a storm in her restaurant with her whole life ahead of her. Instead Anele Tembe will forever be known as the young woman who plunged to her death from the 10th floor of the Pepperclub Hotel on Loop Street in Cape Town where she was staying with her fiancé, late rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes.
Her tragic death in April 2021 rocked the country and left her loved ones utterly devastated.
Now her family are hoping a state-of-the-art library named after her
