By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
Defence advocate Charles Mnisi, representing accused number three, Mthobisi Prince Mncube, was not present in court to cross-examine the state’s ballistics expert Edward Sereo at the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday.
Mnisi was attending another case, which is at trial stage in the regional court.
Sereo, who began his testimony on Monday, did a microscopic verification of his colleague Lt-Col Chris Mangena’s work.
Mangena testified in August 2023 that the 9mm gun found on Mncube when he was arrested in 2015 for a separate matter was the same one that killed Meyiwa.
He said he was able to determine this after examining the projectile found on the kitchen counter at the crime scene and test bullets fired from the gun.
The presiding judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng was not happy and decided to postpone the matter. He told Sereo to avail himself on Thursday for Mnisi’s cross-examination.
Meyiwa, the former Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper, was shot and killed at the house of the mother of his then-girlfriend, singer Kelly Khumalo, in Vosloorus, east of Johannesburg, on October 26, 2014.
Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya, Bongani Sandiso Ntanzi, Mncube, Mthobisi Maphisa, and Fisokuhle Ntuli face charges of premeditated murder, attempted murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances, possession of firearms without a licence and possession of ammunition.
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