Court hears how accused two was unhappy about being paid R45,000 for Meyiwa's murder
The detail was revealed during the reading of accused number two Bongani Ntanzi’s confession.
Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng presides over the re-start of the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial on 17 July 2023. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News
JOHANNESBURG - The Pretoria High Court has heard that the murder of Senzo Meyiwa became a family secret of one of the accused.
The detail was revealed during the reading of accused number two Bongani Ntanzi’s confession.
The statements written by Ntanzi and his co-accused Muzi Sibiya were laid bare in court on Friday after Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng ruled that they were made freely and voluntarily.
Ntanzi, Sibiya and three others are standing trial for the Bafana Bafana captain’s 2014 murder.
The state has called the police officers who took down the confessions of Ntanzi and Sibiya back to the witness stand to read the statements.
Lieutenant Mohale Raphadu who took Ntanzi’s confession in June 2020 read how Ntanzi was unhappy about being paid R45,000 for his role in the murder of Meyiwa.
That led to a meeting being held in Mahlathini in KZN.
"Njabulo and Lulama had an argument with Muzi Sibiya whereby the meeting was convened by the family, headed by Muzi’s father. He told them to keep quiet about the incident of the killing of Senzo Meyiwa and the family agreed."
The identities and the involvement of the people referred to in Ntanzi’s statement are unknown at this stage.
His confession also details that Sibiya had leaked the information about Meyiwa’s murder.
Throughout the reading of the confession, both Ntanzi and Sibiya maintained blank stares- with Ntanzi, fiddling with his beard.