Senzo Meyiwa murder: Ntanzi a well-known gun supplier, court hears
Bongani Ntanzi is one of five men standing trial for the 2014 murder of the football star.
The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial resumed in the Pretoria High Court on 22 January 2024. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/Eyewitness News
JOHANNESBURG - The youngest of the accused in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial has been described as a well-known gun supplier in a statement read in the Pretoria High Court.
This was revealed in a docket of a murder in KwaNongoma, which Bongani Ntanzi was initially arrested for in June 2020.
Ntanzi is one of five men standing trial for the 2014 murder of the football star.
Lawyers for the accused spent most of the day perusing dockets linked to Ntanzi for various unrelated crimes.
When Ntanzi was arrested on 16 June 2020, it was in connection with a murder case from KwaNongoma in KwaZulu-Natal.
That was one of the dockets that was explored in court on Tuesday, with Ntanzi’s lawyer, Advocate Thulani Mngomezulu arguing that there was nothing linking him to the crime, making his arrest unlawful.
That led to Brigadier Bongani Gininda being ordered to read a statement by one of the witnesses in that case, Simphiwe Buthelezi.
"Ntanzi is a very quiet gentleman and no one can suspect him. He is a firearm and ammunition supplier."
In the same statement, Buthelezi claimed that Ntanzi and the fourth accused in the Meyiwa murder, Mthokoziseni Maphisa, were also behind the assassination of a prominent union leader at a mine in Marikana.
Buthelezi has since died.
At the time of Meyiwa’s murder, Ntanzi was just 24-years-old.