Meyiwa trial: State to focus on Ntanzi court appearance for ammunition matter

JOHANNESBURG - The State in the Senzo Meyiwa trial will on Wednesday morning focus on a court appearance of one of the men accused of killing the footballer for an ammunition case.

The trial within a trial is continuing in the Pretoria High Court.

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The State has been cross-examining the second accused, Bongani Ntanzi, to determine the admissibility of his confession statement.

He insists he was beaten and tricked into signing two incriminating confession statements after his arrest in June 2020.

Police from the Cold Cases Unit told the Pretoria High Court that after Ntanzi signed a confession statement at the Moroka Police Station, they went to his home in the North West to look for a sweater that he said he was wearing on the night Meyiwa was killed.

They said that’s when they found live rounds of ammunition in his home.

He was then charged, and he subsequently appeared before the Tlhabane Magistrates Court on 22 June 2020.

However, he contended that he did not make a formal court appearance, but a prosecutor came to him while he was in a police vehicle and showed him his file.

The State has started cross-examining Ntanzi on that particular appearance, but the lawyer for the third accused, Advocate Charles Mnisi, has objected to this.

The State has agreed to bring the outstanding pieces of the records and continue cross-examining Ntanzi on Wednesday morning.