By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
One of the men accused of murdering Senzo Meyiwa claimed that he was in KwaZulu-Natal when the soccer player was shot and killed in Gauteng – and his bank statements would prove that, except they don’t.
Meyiwa was shot in what’s believed to have been a home invasion in Vosloorus in 2014.
But the murder remains unsolved, a decade later.
Several witness accounts in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial have put Bongani Ntanzi in the house where the soccer star was killed.
He is believed to have been one of two intruders who accosted Meyiwa and his close circle of friends in October 2014.
But testimony by senior forensic analyst, Mmampshedi Masetla, couldn’t tie Ntanzi and the other accused to the crime scene.
On Wednesday, State prosecutor, advocate George Baloyi, wanted to hand up Ntanzi’s bank statements, which seemingly contradict another alibi by the murder accused.
Ramosepele objected to the bank statements being handed in as an exhibit.
He said that according to Ntanzi, his bank statements would show certain transactions that proved he was in Nongoma when the soccer star was slain.
However, those transactions are not in the statements.
The bank statements from Capitec show no movement in the bank account from 25 October 2014 to 28 October 2014. No transactions were made, and no money was received during that time.
Ramosepele said because the transactions that Ntanzi claims to have made are not in the statement, they cannot accept the document being made part of the record until they have ventilated and corroborated the information.
He reiterated that according to Ntanzi, he had to perform a certain ceremony and then obtained a loan from the bank to pay for it, which was paid into his account and should appear in the bank statements.
Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng ruled that the statements could be made an exhibit and that it did not stop Ntanzi from challenging the statements with his own evidence.
The trial is expected to continue on Thursday, where the admissibility of confession statements allegedly made by two of the accused will be challenged in a trial within a trial.
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