Aged 33, the novelist and multidisciplinary artist was found dead on Sunday.
The Pikoli family spokesperson confirmed the news in a statement this morning.
Although planning a memorial service, the family has asked that the public respect their privacy as they grieve.
Novelist and multidisciplinary artist Phumlani Pikoli died on Sunday 11 April 2021. He was 33.
“The gruesome discovery of Phumlani's lifeless body lying in bed is something that no parent needs to go through” his grieving father and former National Prosecuting Authority head Vusi Pikoli said.
Best known for his work in literature, Pikoli self-published his first book, The
Fatuos State of Severity in 2016. “I was told to journal instead I played out some of the most ridiculous fictions I could think of to be honest,” he once told Pan MacMillan. Written while in psychiatric care, the collection of short stories and illustrations explores the messy, laborious, layered and clumsy act of coping.