Senzo Meyiwa: Answers at last?
The police’s cold case unit has cracked the Meyiwa murder and says its investigation is ‘watertight’
Six years ago on Monday, former Bafana Bafana captain and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was gunned down at his girlfriend Kelly Khumalo’s house in Vosloorus.There were six other people in the house at the time, including Khumalo’s mother, Ntombi, her sister, Zandi, and Zandi’s boyfriend, Longwe Twala.At first the police said it was a bungled robbery. Now they say it was a hit.AfriForum’s head of private prosecutions, advocate Gerrie Nel, agrees with the police, but maintains that the mastermind is still at large.In October 2014, police arrested Zamokuhle Mbatha as a suspect and detained him for two weeks. His lawsuit is pending.There is a swirl of noninformation about the murder weapon, which has apparently been found and linked to Meyiwa’s killing.Police minister Bheki Cele has not helped in any way to dispel the fog.The fact that a gun was found shouldn’t make the news, he said last week. Actually, he declined to say whether a gun had been found. Or even if a suspect was...
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