{"id":13552,"date":"2026-01-09T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/13552\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:10:08","slug":"seven-accused-in-kiernan-forbes-murder-moved-to-ebongweni-super-max-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/13552\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven accused in Kiernan Forbes murder moved to eBongweni super max prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seven men accused of killing rapper Kiernan Forbes and businessman Tebello Motsoane have recently been transferred to the high-security eBongweni prison in Kokstad, KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to EWN said all seven accused were moved to the prison early at the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes and Motsoane were killed in February 2023, with the accused arrested a year after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ:<a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ewn.co.za\/2025\/11\/11\/kzn-police-focusing-on-identifying-mastermind-behind-alleged-hit-on-aka-tibz-mkhwanazi\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not provided an explanation for the transfer.<\/p>\n<p>EWN has reliably learnt that the seven men accused in the high-profile murder of rapper aka and his friend, businessman Tibz, have been moved from Westville prison.<\/p>\n<p>They were transferred to the high-maximum security eBongweni prison in Kokstad at the behest of the state in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The prison is known for its high-tech and advanced security features and also houses highly dangerous inmates and convicted criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, two of the accused, Siyabonga and Malusi Ndimande, have appeared in camera (a closed court process typically used in sensitive matters).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The seven men accused of killing rapper Kiernan Forbes and businessman Tebello Motsoane have recently been transferred to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-13552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}