A startling new documentary set to be aired this week on SABC2 raises haunting questions about musician Johannes Kerkorrel's alleged suicide.
Who Killed Johannes Kerkorrel - which examines the life of the star who was largely responsible for pioneering the alternative Afrikaans movement of the late 1980s - asks questions about the "official" version of his death on November 12, 2002, in Kleinmond.
Police say Kerkorrel slit his wrists in his car and then walked to a tree where he hanged himself with a belt. The documentary asks how the artist could have lost as much blood as he did and yet still be able to walk - and then hang himself.
Among other pointed questions asked in the documentary are those relating to the musician's suicide note. Maas's inquiries concern why the suicide note was written in English, unsigned and was not found at Kerkorrel's place of death. The note was typed on another computer and later transferred to Kerkorrel's own computer.
An expert claimed that the signature on Kerkorrel's will and testament was false. The documentary also examines this and asks why the will on the artist's computer was allegedly changed - twice - after his death.
Neither the investigating officers, nor his lover at the time of his death agreed to appear on the documentary which airs on Wednesday at 9pm.