Investigators ‘interested only in info on Khumalo family’

ALL the investigating teams looking into the Senzo Meyiwa murder were interested in was acquiring information about the family of Kelly Khumalo, and not the suspects currently on trial for the murder.

According to State witness constable Sizwe Skhumbuzo Zungu, he met Colonel Joyce Buthelezi as well as Warrant Officer Meshack Makhubo, who were part of the team investigating the murder of Meyiwa in 2019.

Zungu said that he told the officers about his information during this meeting. However, they hardly paid any attention to that and were more interested in information about the Khumalo family.

“The colonel did not ask me a lot about the suspects, her emphasis was on the Khumalo family and how I related to them. I told them that they were unknown to me.”

Advocate Zandile Mshololo, the legal counsel for Sifisokuhle Nkani Ntuli, the fifth accused, questioned how the investigating team would not have wanted to know about him being in the presence of people who were exchanging firearms, to which he could not answer.

Mshololo also criticised why the officer had not written down a statement to help him remember crucial evidence.

While taking the officer through some of the photo evidence submitted in court, she alleged that according to Ntuli’s version, he denied being at the Sotho hostel in Vosloorus and said he was instead at the George Goch Hostel.

Zungu said he had no comment about that, but was taken to task by Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng for this failure to answer adequately.

“You can’t comment like that because this court must know whether you agree with that assertion or not. So answer the question.”

The officer stressed that he knew what he saw and that Ntuli was there with the rest of the men on October 26, 2014.

Ntuli distanced himself from knowing any relative by the name of Nkazimulo Ntuli, who allegedly threatened Zungu, and that on the day Meyiwa was killed he had been at work in Johannesburg until 1pm, thereafter he proceeded to go to his flat in the CBD.

When he left his residence, he claimed he had gone to a hostel called George Goch and not the Sotho Hostel in Vosloorus.

Judge Mokgoatlheng has adjourned the matter to Monday.