Zandile Khumalo calls for trial to be sped up

She suggested the hours already allocated for the trial proceedings be extended so that the trial can begin from early morning to late in the evening on weekdays.

She added if that is not enough, the trial could even be heard on weekends as this would enable the proceedings to take less time than now. Zandile’s message to President Cyril Ramaphosa, to whom her plea was directed and to the newly appointed presiding trial Judge Ratha Mokgoathleng, was that the trial must go ahead and get done without any further time wasted with prolonged postponements, which has been the case since this trial started.

To many following the trial, Zandile sounded overly eager to see the court reach a conclusive end and for her name and that of her mother Ntombi and sister Kelly Khumalo cleared by the court.

What Zandi did not seem to understand when she thanked the president for supporting the JSC in removing the previous judge for the present judge Ratha Mogkoathleng to speed up the trial at the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, will instead lead to more problems for her family.

Firstly, in the event of the five men currently appearing at the High Court in Pretoria for the murder of Meyiwa being found not guilty, this will lead to the activation of the controversial second case docket.

In this second docket, the defence attorneys for the five men accused of murdering Meyiwa, an Orlando Pirates soccer star, could change and take a new direction.

The second case docket calls for the arrest and prosecution of the six people inside singer Kelly Khumalo’s mother’s house in Mzamo Acres, Vosloorus when Meyiwa was shot and killed on the evening of October 26, 2014.

Those present with Meyiwa inside the Khumalo home that night were Ntombi Khumalo, and her two daughters Kelly and Zandile Khumalo, two friends of the deceased Mothokozisi Twala, Tumelo Mdlala and Zandile’s boyfriend Longwe Twala.

The document refuted the alleged invasion of the Khumalo household by armed intruders and that the deceased was shot and killed by one of the five men appearing before Judge Mogkpathleng at the Pretoria High Court.

Instead, the second docket calls for all six people to be charged with perjury and defeating the ends of justice aswell as the murder of Meyiwa.

With so many new revelations from State witnesses revealed in court, it looks like the defence attorneys are determined to bring the truth about the murder of Meyiwa to the fore. The bereaved Meyiwa family also play an important role in assisting the defence to reach a conclusive verdict that will determine who killed Meyiwa.

The defence insists there were no intruders who raided the Khumalo home that fateful evening and that, according to medical testimony, Meyiwa was dead by the time he was rushed to hospital. This testimony was attested by the testimony of the SAPS forensic expert who recently confirmed his testimony about the crime scene at the Khumalo home was not entirely accurate.

The Meyiwa family also vehemently rejected the claim of intruders entering the Khumalo home and shooting Meyiwa during an attempted house robbery.

Meyiwa’s elder brother Sifiso Meyiwa, based their rejection of the intruder theory in the Khumalo home on a call they say Meyiwa’s friend, Tumelo Madlala, made to the Meyiwa family who told them that Senzo was shot by Zandi Khumalo’s girlfriend.

The same claim was also made by Siyabonga Miya, the footballer’s cousin, who is now the family spokesperson following the death of Senzo’s father who died last July. The family claims Senzo’s death was detailed to them in a telephone call which described his death after he was shot by someone who was in the house at the time.

One of Meyiwa’s friends, who was present that day, later told the Meyiwa family who shot Senzo and why. It is in fact that information from Senzo’s friend who called them from the scene of the crime and detailed what happened to the Orlando Pirates football star.

Shouldn’t the police be following that crucial lead to solve the nine-year-old Meyiwa murder case?