News24 | ‘It wasn’t drugs’: Costa Titch’s mom vindicated as pathologists reveal rapper’s true cause of death

Costa Titch. (Oupa Bopape/Gallo Images)

Costa Titch. (Oupa Bopape/Gallo Images)

Over a year after vowing not to rest until she found out what caused her son, Costa Titch’s sudden death in March 2023, Lara Langeveld has gotten the answers she has long awaited.

The then 28-year-old died suddenly after collapsing at the Ultra Music Festival at Nasrec Expo Centre, Johannesburg, on 11 March. 

Shortly after his death, the event organiser and company it contracted to provide medical assistance denied claims of medical negligence and a lack of adequate medical personnel. This came after allegations from the rapper’s close friends and manager who say that Titch did not receive proper medical assistance immediately after he collapsed. 

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