As preparations for the memorial services and funerals of Top Billing presenter Simba Mhere and his friend Kady-Shay O'Bryan continued, Mhere's boss, Basetsana Kumalo, and his peers yesterday paid tribute to the presenter on 3 Talk.
It was announced that a memorial service would be held at the Rhema Church in Randburg northern Johannesburg, on Thursday and that Mhere would be buried at Westpark Cemetery on Saturday.
But there was not a dry eye in the Top Billing studio as his colleagues Lorna Maseko, Ursula Chikane, Bonang Matheba, Maps Maponyane and Jonathan Boynton-Lee reminisced about his "best bear hugs", his "mack game", his chivalrous nature and his professionalism.
Boynton-Lee said Mhere "will be really angry right now that we're crying".
The 26-year-old television personality and O'Bryan were killed in a car crash in Johannesburg on Saturday, which Mhere's father, Joseph, survived.
Kumalo, the executive producer of Top Billing, called into 3 Talk and told host Noeleen Maholwana-Sangqu: "I'm at Simba's home. I've spent the last two days with his family and words cannot begin to describe the depth of their pain.
"It's very traumatic but we have to keep strong because I think that's what Simba would have wanted."
