Meyiwa trial: Court hears how cops concluded the 5 accused are perpetrators

PRETORIA - The lead investigator in the Senzo Meyiwa trial has addressed the widespread notion that the people accused of murdering the football star were in prison at the time of the football star's murder.

Brigadier Bongani Gininda returned to the witness stand to give testimony on Friday.

His testimony seeks to connect the dots of the State's case and to clarify how police concluded that the five men in the dock were the perpetrators. 

Meyiwa was murdered almost a decade ago at the home of his girlfriend, singer Kelly Khumalo. 

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In the 10 years since Meyiwa's demise, there have been countless running theories about his murder.

One of them is that the men who are currently being tried for the murder could not have killed Meyiwa, because they were in prison at the time.

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Gininda shed some light on this notion through the confession statement by the first accused Muzi Sibiya, who claimed his co-perpetrators were, Makho and Qiniselani Buthelezi - known as the Buthelezi brothers. 

"We followed this version and we found that this was not correct because these two people were in prison from 2013 up to 2016. They were released briefly in 2016, where he was arrested again...this is Qiniselani, Makho was killed in 2019," said Gininda.

Gininda believes Sibiya drew the Buthelezi brothers into his confession in an attempt to mislead the police.