Philani Kweyana said AKA and his friends were there on Friday to support his restaurant Wish, according to SABC News.

Two gunmen killed the two men as they were leaving the restaurant, with AKA due to give a birthday performance at a nightclub.

Kweyana said he had known AKA for 12 years.

He said that evening AKA was the happiest he had ever seen him.

"It’s so sad. It’s so, so, so sad. The conversations that we were having during his dinner, the throwbacks, talking about things that happened in the past. Talking about hip hop and how this new genre, Amapiano, is taking over and what they’re doing to bring it back. You know he was so inspired. He had plans. He had plans on doing a show, a whole show with a choir. He had so many plans that he was going to do."

A night vigil was held for AKA and Tibz on Sunday night, with people laying flowers outside the restaurant on Florida Road.

Meanwhile, police in KwaZulu-Natal say they are yet to make an arrest in connection with the two murders and there was still uncertainty as to when the suspects would be apprehended. 

"There is no update as yet," KZN police spokesperson Col. Robert Netshiunda told The Citizen in a written reply. 

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