Accused details how he was shivering and frightened after Meyiwa was murdered
Magistrate Vivian Cronje read Bongani Ntanzi’s second confession statement into the record where he detailed, among others things, how he was paid R45,000 by Meyiwa’s lover for the murder.
Bongani Ntanzi, one of the men accused of murdering Senzo Meyiwa, appeared in the Pretoria High Court on 28 April 2023. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/Eyewitness News
JOHANNESBURG - One of the accused in the Senzo Meyiwa trial has detailed how he was shivering and frightened after the Bafana Bafana captain was murdered.
Bongani Ntanzi’s second confession was read into the record on Monday by Magistrate Vivian Cronje, who took the statement in June 2020.
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He claimed he was paid R45,000 for his role in Meyiwa’s murder, which was ordered by his lover, singer Kelly Khumalo.
In the confession statement that Ntanzi signed before Cronje, he painted a picture of him being a young boy who was called by older men to assist in the murder of Meyiwa.
“I was already pointed with a finger as a warning when this thing was done, and I was still a young boy.”
He said after Meyiwa was shot and they were back at the Basotho Hostel, the third and fourth accused, Mthobisi Carlos Mncube and Mthokiseni Maphisa, threatened to kill him if he mentioned what they had done.
“I was shivering since I was never involved in such a thing before.”
In both his confessions, Ntanzi said he was paid a total of R45,000.
The matter has been postponed to Wednesday after Thulani Mngomezulu, the lawyer for the first accused, asked for time to prepare for the main trial, which he was not initially a part of.