Mr. Moses Tembe, father of Nelli has broken his silence after the death of her beloved daughter who humped to her death from the 10th floor of the Pepperclub Hotel in Cape Town.
The funeral service of Nellie is currently underway at the Durban International Conference Centre and her friends and loved ones have paid glowing tributes to her memory.
Moses did not speak at the funeral service as he allowed a close friend, Sandile Zungu to read what he had written to bid her daughter goodbye. According to the father, her dfaughter was a very cheerful person whose spirits lifted up the people around her.
He wrote: “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.”
“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.”
“I knew Kiernan loved my daughter but their companionship needed more than love. It had to be premised and embedded on a Godly foundation.
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,”
Source: www.Ghgossip.com
