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Mncube is the alleged trigger who is already serving time for murders related to the taxi industry. He is turning 55 for crimes involving Vosloorus, Kagiso, Tsakane and Alexandra. He was arrested in February 2015, just three months after Meyiwa’s murder. A gun that he apparently used in the murder of a taxi chief was linked to Meyiwa’s murder through ballistic evidence, according to police.
Refusing to stand in the dock, Maphisa, the fourth suspect, told the court: “The people who are supposed to appear in court are not here because they have money. It means the court will have to ask me questions because I don’t have money for legal representation. “
However, their protests were in vain when the prosecutor George Baloyi read the accusations that the state brought against the five men. Baloyi said that on October 26, 2014, two men broke into the home in Vosloorus with a firearm and a knife.
A fight broke out between Meyiwa and a man with dreadlocks, who was carrying a firearm. The state alleges that a gunshot was fired, hitting Khumalo’s sister, Zandi, in the leg. A second shot, according to the indictment, went off and hit Meyiwa in the chest. Meyiwa was transferred to a nearby hospital where his death was certified at 9.15pm that day.
Yesterday it could not be established how all the men, besides Mncube, had been related to the murder of Meyiwa.
As the judicial drama unfolded, an internal document from the National Prosecutor’s Office was leaked, alleging that Khumalo was in contact with Ntuli, defendant number five.
The couple allegedly contacted by phone and that it was mentioned that there was a lender who allegedly gave money to “apparently pay hitmen and that this lender was bothering her [Khumalo] for the repayment of this loan ”. Khumalo did not respond to questions sent to him.
In 2019, Khumalo told eNCA that he would not protect the identity of someone who murdered the father of his son. “One thing I will never do is protect someone who killed my daughter’s father. At what cost, really? she asked.
Meyiwa’s brother, Sifiso Meyiwa, told the media after the court proceedings that the five defendants shocked him. “I am shocked because the police are the ones who brought them here, claiming that they have also made confessions. I was hoping they would get into the box, but they don’t want to get in, “Sifiso said.
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