Meyiwa trial: Traffic data does not prove the accused was in Joburg

JOHANNESBURG - The lawyer for accused number one in the the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial has argued that the traffic data used as evidence against him does not prove that he was in Johannesburg at the time of the footballer’s murder.

The state has called an investigator from the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) to testify on the whereabouts of some of the accused during certain periods.

Part of accused number one, Muzi Sibiya’s case is that he was not in Gauteng between 2013 and 2015, so he could not have been part of Meyiwa’s murder in 2014.

However, data from the National Administration Traffic Information System suggests that he sat for his learner's license test twice in 2014 in the province.

An investigator from the RTMC Christopher Matlou spent the day under cross-examination in the Pretoria High Court.

Sibiya’s lawyer Thulani Mngomezulu has put it to him that apart from July and September 2014 when Sibiya wrote his learner’s license tests his data cannot place him in Johannesburg on the day Meyiwa was murdered.

Matlou has agreed but says the RTMC Act requires people to make bookings in the province where they reside.

Mngomezulu says the Gauteng address used by Sibiya while making a booking was not his permanent address as he was living in KwaZulu-Natal.

Mngomezulu said after writing his tests in Brakpan and Boksburg, Sibiya returned to Mahlabathini in KZN where he lived.