17yr Old South Africa Teen Model Killed!

The popular Aphiwe..killed so brutally

A 17-year old South African teen model has been killed. Aphiwe Mgoqi who modelled for
Woolworths, Mr Price, Ackermans, Jet and done so many billboards and magazine adverts was stabbed and stoned to death on Tuesday in his neighbourhood.

His family does not know why anyone would harm their boy. He had no enemies, was not a gang member and was, by all accounts, a model pupil, they said. Nomfundo Mgoqi, his mother, said she could not believe what had happened. “It feels like he’s gone to school and will walk in any time,” she said.

Aphiwe’s modelling agency, 3D Management, says it still cannot believe he has been murdered.

“I can’t concentrate on my work,” said his model booker, Buyelwa Cynthia Jali, who said that when 3D started the kids market seven years ago, Aphiwe, then only 10, was the first child it signed. “He was such a sweet, charming boy... a hard worker most of our clients loved.”

Aphiwe had only had two castings before he was booked for his first job, at Ackermans, and had since done shoots for Woolworths’ Studio W range, Edgars, Jet and Mr Price.

“Mr Price ads are done in Durban, so every now and then he would fly there with his mother.”

“He did not deserve to die like that,” Jali said, adding clients who had booked Aphiwe before for shoots had been told of his death.

Meanwhile, the mood at Aphiwe’s school, Walmer Secondary, was sombre. Pupils were in tears. They couldn’t stop crying because he was a great peer to have, his school Principal said.