Meyiwa murder trial: Court to take into account confession recording
The court is hearing evidence from the magistrate who took down the confession by Bongani Ntanzi in June 2020, almost six years since the Bafana Bafana captain was killed.
The court is hearing evidence from the magistrate who took down the confession by Bongani Ntanzi in June 2020, almost six years since the Bafana Bafana captain was killed.
The State is making a case during Tuesday morning’s hearing to admit the alleged confession statements by two of the five men accused of the Bafana Bafana captain’s 2014 murder.
The state wants the confession statements by two of the five men accused of the football star’s murder to be admitted.
The court is hearing evidence on the admissibility of alleged confessions by two of the five men accused of Meyiwa’s murder.
One of the accused's lawyers argued he was forced to sign an already-written statement, which the State, however, argued was confessed freely and voluntarily and should be admitted as evidence, alongside another accused's statement.
The court heard arguments in a trial within a trial in order to establish the admissibility of confession statements by two of the five accused of murdering Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa in 2014.
A trial within a trial to determine the admissability of the confessions made by two of the accused was heard on Friday.
It's a trial within a trial to determine the admissibility of alleged admissions and confessions by Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya and Bongani Ntanzi on what exactly happened on the night Meyiwa was killed.
Magudumana claims she was assaulted at the Kroonstaad Prison on Wednesday where she is being kept.
Moeketsi Ramolula is now taking the security company to task after it allegedly forced him to resign.
Disgraced doctor, Nandipha Magudumana was meant to appear alongside her accomplice, Thabo Bester, and 10 others on Wednesday but she did not make it past the court holding cells, claiming to be ill.
Thabo Bester and 10 others appeared in the Bloemfontein Magistrates Court on Wednesday on charges relating to his brazen escape from the Mangaung Correctional Facility in May last year.
Nandipha Magudumana was set to appear with her accomplice, convicted killer Thabo Bester, in the Bloemfontein Magistrates Court on charges relating to Bester’s brazen escape from the Mangaung Correctional Facility in May last year.
Thabo Bester and Nandipha Magudumana will share the dock for the first time on Wednesday morning since she claimed that he forced her to skip the country with him, effectively kidnapping her.
The analyst, Mmampshedi Masetla, testified on Monday about the DNA evidence that was collected from the house where the Bafana Bafana captain was murdered in October 2014.
Some of the witnesses in the Senzo Meyiwa trial have testified that the checkered hat found at the Khumalo home after the football star was murdered belonged to one of the intruders and was left behind when they fled the scene.
Five men are being tried for the 2014 murder of the Bafana Bafana captain at the home of his girlfriend Kelly Khumalo.
Constable Sizwe Zungu has told the Pretoria High Court that he has no motive to fabricate what he saw on the night that soccer star Senzo Meyiwa was killed.