Families, friends and fans gathered at the Immaculate Cathedral church in Johannesburg to bid farewell to the murdered media personality, Warrick “DJ Warras” Stock.
Stock was shot and killed outside a building in the Johannesburg CBD last week where his security company had been contracted to secure it. Mourners described DJ Warras as a beacon of hope for many. Pearl Magubane
A transparent carriage drove in with a coffin draped in a black and gold cloth. Silence and emotions as the black coffin with Nguni cow trimmings were revealed to an emotional crowd outside the Cathedral.
For his sister, Nicole Stock, the family is not focused on assigning blame for his death. She described DJ Warras as the light of the family.
“It is sad. It’s sombre. He was the life of the house. He was the light. He was the energy. He was this little tsunami that used to come in, so that noise and that bubbliness and that energy is gone.”
Visibly shaken and in tears, Warras’ great grandmother, Hester Livanos is still shattered about his death and the void it left.
“Ok, I am broken. The whole family is broken. The children are devastated. They can’t even exist. I don’t know what they’re going to do without their dad like that. There’s no one on this earth, I promise you. I know it’s not the only one. There are really people like that, but he was. He loved everyone. Anyone was his friend. Colour, whatever. Greek, whatever. He loved everybody. And he made a good impression wherever he went. He just had this special string that hardly anyone has.”
DJ Warras’ close friend and industry colleague, Siyabonga Metane popularly known as Slikour described his death as a significant loss to the media industry.
“For me, this is that humbling moment that reminds us that we are a community, you know, he might have been Warrick Stockman, DJ Warras, he might have been famous, but he was working, this was his job, right? So, I think that it’s a loss, you know, that a lot of people are going through it, and even our community, in our industry, we’re experiencing unfortunate and tragic losses like these.”
The two people who had been taken in for questioning, have since been detained and will face a murder charge, when they appear in the Johannesburg Magistrates court on Wednesday.
Video: DJ Warras Funeral Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DpKJPG8YMY
