By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
More details have emerged from the confession made by one of the five men accused of killing former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa.
On Friday, two confession statements made by accused one and two, revealed that singer, Kelly Khumalo, ordered the hit.
Meyiwa was shot and killed in 2014, while at Khumalo’s parental home in Vosloorus on Gauteng’s East Rand.
Five men (Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya, Bongani Sandiso Ntanzi, Mthobisi Prince Mncube, Mthokoziseni Ziphozonke Maphisa, and Fisokuhle Ntuli) are on trial at the High Court in Pretoria for the murder of the former Orlando Pirates and Bafana Bafana captain.
On Monday, magistrate Vivian Cronje who took down a confession statement from accused two, Ntanzi.
The statement was taken on June 24 2020, a week after his arrest.
This was a second confession statement that was read in court which Ntanzi made following his arrest.
Cronje said Ntanzi was happy to confess, but he mentioned that he was scared of the other accused as he was threatened after the murder and he wanted protection.
Ntanzi said he was in Carltonville when he was called by Ntuli to come to Basotho hostel in Vosloorus as there was a “job” to be done that evening on October 26 2014.
Upon his arrival, he said they held a meeting and discussed how they will carry out a hit on Meyiwa.
“Carlos (Mncube) and Maphisa called Kelly Khumalo. They told her they were all right. We all then left in the Polo Vivo. It was myself, Carlos, Mthokoziseni, Sifiso and Muzi,” he said.
Ntanzi added that on their way to Khumalo’s house, they got two more guns from a man called Simphiwe.
As they were travelling, he said Mncube received a call from Khumalo and he kept referring to her as “sistas”.
He said this call was just to confirm whether they were coming.
According to Ntanzi’s confession statement, Ntuli was the driver, Sibiya was tasked to lookout, while Maphisa stood by the window outside the house.
Meanwhile, him and Mncube entered the house.
After entering the house, he said Mncube pulled out his gun and then ordered everyone to lie down and demanded phones and money.
“Carlos then gave me a phone. I had a plastic bag with me and there was a plastic container on the table with money. Carlos gave me the container which I put in the plastic bag.
“I think Carlos was told where whatever he was looking for was. Carlos was about to open something when Senzo stood up. There was a scuffle between him and Carlos. It appeared as if he wanted to prevent Carlos from taking whatever he wanted to take.
“Kelly Khumalo was the one who directed Carlos where the thing was which he wanted to take,” read the confession.
Meyiwa was fatally shot during the scuffle with Mncube. Two shots were fired and one shot hit him on the chest and exited his back.
Ntanzi said after the shots were fired, he ran back to the getaway car and everyone else followed and they drove off.
He said in the car, Mncube kept threatening him and told him that if he tells anyone, he will come for him.
“He also said if he hears anything he will kill me. He doesn’t know my parental home but there are people who know the home and they will show him,” he said.
The trial continues on Wednesday.