Entertainment photographer Siphiwe Mhlambi, 50, is devastated - and full of questions - over the death of his eldest son, film director Siphiwe "SJ" Myeza-Mhlambi, 25.
Myeza-Mhlambi died "in mysterious circumstances" at the Blowfish Hotel on Victoria Island in Lagos. His body was discovered on Monday.
He had been in Nigeria to film a commercial.
Three years ago Myeza-Mhlambi became the youngest winner at the Loeries advertising awards. The following year he won gold at the Cannes Lions, and silver at the Pendoring advertising awards ceremonies.
Myeza-Mhlambi was the majority shareholder at a Cape Town production company, 7Film.
According to director and 7Films founder Lourens van Rensburg, the commercial in Lagos had been the company's biggest production.
"We spoke last Sunday night. He was in a really good frame of mind. He was going to shoot the next day and was so excited," said Van Rensburg.
"On Monday I called for our meeting at 8am but I couldn't get hold of him. I tried again at 9am and still I couldn't get hold of him. My wife [producer Nina van Rensburg] started to get worried so she called the hotel.
"They found him unconscious in bed. A doctor was called but declared him dead at the scene. It's become such a process trying to repatriate him.
"The autopsy was [on Thursday] and we are still waiting for the results. What I can say is that it doesn't look like foul play. There was no sign of entry, nothing disturbed.
"He went out with friends that night and returned to the hotel at 2am. That's as much as we know," Van Rensburg said.
Mhlambi said he was planning to retrace his son's steps.
"We spent Christmas together and it was the most beautiful time of my life. We weren't always close. This is killing me right now.
"He did more in 25 years than any other director. I didn't want his story to end like this.
"I'm fighting so hard to get him back. It's days later and we still don't know what happened. I've been back and forth with the embassy and the investigators. He died in mysterious circumstances.
"I'm going to take my own journey to get his body. I want to go jogging, like he did on the morning before he died. I want to eat where he had dinner and I want to sleep where he did. In our culture it's what we need to do to make sure his spirit comes back home."
A spokesperson for the department of international relations, Ndivhuwo Mabaya, said the department had informed Myeza-Mhlambi's father about the death.
"I don't know when the body will be repatriated but what I can tell you is that we have fast-tracked the process. We are still waiting for the autopsy results but we are pushing the authorities," he said.
Myeza-Mhlambi is the second South African to die outside of the country this week. Luke Potter, 40, who held dual citizenship with Britain, was killed during the terror attack on a Nairobi hotel on Tuesday...