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State says it won’t be pressured into calling Kelly as a witness

todayDecember 5, 2024 111

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The state says it will exercise its prerogative on who it will call as a witness in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial.

It was responding to defence counsel for accused number four, advocate Zithulele Nxumalo, who quizzed the prosecuting team on whether or not they will call Kelly Khumalo to take the stand.

Advocate Nxumalo told the court that he had questions lined up for the songstress, who was in a relationship with Meyiwa when he was gunned down at her mother’s house in Vosloorus, in Ekurhuleni, in 2014.

State prosecutor, advocate George Baloyi, says they will decide which witnesses need to be called when they wrap up their case.

Baloyi previously indicated that the current witness on the hot seat, lead investigator Bongani Gininda, is the last witness they will be calling.

“We are on record, on several occasions we have said we will not call Miss Kelly Khumalo, if you want us to repeat it, we will not call Miss Kelly Khumalo,” Baloyi told Nxumalo.

Khumalo has been implicated by some of the accused as the mastermind behind the football star’s mysterious killing.

More than 10 years later, five men are still being tried in the High Court in Pretoria.

Cell phone expert, Gideon Gouws, previously told the court that Khumalo had communicated with accused number five, Sifisokuhle Ntuli, before Meyiwa’s death.

One of the accused also revealed in their alleged confession statement that Khumalo ordered the hit on Meyiwa’s life and that there was money paid for it.

The confession statements that were admitted as evidence earlier in the year detailed how accused number 2 Bongani Ntanzi was paid R45 000 while his co-accused, Muzi Sibiya, was paid R30 000 for their roles in the killing.

The songstress and mother to Meyiwa’s daughter was among those who were present at her home on the fateful night of the 26th of October 2014.

Lead investigator in the case, Gininda, maintains that Meyiwa’s murder was a contract killing.

He, however, says according to his investigations, while there is no electronic trail of money paid to the accused, Khumalo remains a person of interest in Meyiwa’s killing.

Gininda further told the court that the money allegedly paid to the accused was in cash.

Many have taken to social media to slam the state’s decision not to call Kelly Khumalo to the stand.

Written by: Lindiwe Mpanza

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