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The five men accused of killing Senzo Meyiwa.  (Photo by Phill Magakoe/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Meyiwa trial: Defence says accused’s location during murder cannot be disputed

Thulani Mngomezulu said evidence from the electronic national administration traffic information system was irrelevant to the murder trial This content is restricted to…

Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng. (Mario van der Waal/Gallo Images)

Meyiwa trial: Judge Mokgoathleng rebukes ‘black lawyers’ for wasting his time

Judge President Dustan Mlambo this week told the Judicial Service Commission that Judge Tshifhiwa Maumela, Mokgoathleng’s predecessor who was removed from the case, had not been…

The five people on trial — Ncube, Bongani Ntanzi, Mthokozisi Maphisa, Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya and Fisokuhle Ntuli — have pleaded not guilty to charges of premeditated murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, illegal possession of a firearm and the illegal possession of ammunition. (Gallo Images/OJ Koloti)

Meyiwa trial: Ballistics expert says gun found at accused’s home matches bullet at crime scene

Lieutenant Colonel Christian Mangena’s reconstruction of the scene showed that two shots were fired in the house where the football player was killed

Senzo Meyiwa.  (Getty Images)

Senzo Meyiwa trial: Gun could have been swopped, defence argues

State witness Captain Bongani Mtshali says the only time the gun would have been in an unsealed bag was at the ballistics centre

Senzo Meyiwa. File photo by Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images/Getty Images

Meyiwa trial: Defence wants forensic witness back in the stand

Defence attorneys say there are discrepancies in the list of cases that officer Thabo Mosia attended to on the night the footballer was murdered

Senzo Meyiwa.  (Getty Images)

Meyiwa trial: No fingerprints on door

Defence advocate Zandile Mshololo reiterated the assertion that the bullet found in the kitchen was planted

Former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa. (Photo by Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

‘Senzo Meyiwa pinned the guy to the wall,’ murder trial hears

Judge Ratha Ratha Mokgoatlheng rebukes state witness Tumelo Madlala after he calls the accused ‘dogs’

Senzo Meyiwa.  (Getty Images)

Mthokozisi Thwala tells court Kelly Khumalo refused to hand over Meyiwa’s ID

Police data analyst Colonel Lambertus told the court that the only person who could have done a SIM swap on Meyiwa’s cell phone was the person who had his ID

Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng. (Mario van der Waal/Gallo Images)

Senzo Meyiwa trial: Judge dismisses no intruders claim

State witness Zandile Khumalo says the defence must provide evidence for its claim that the people in the house killed the Bafana Bafana captain

Zandile Khumalo, the sister of the late Senzo Meyiwa’s girlfriend, singer Kelly Khumalo. (Instagram/ZandileKhumalo)

Meyiwa trial: ‘Don’t raise your voice at me, I am not your wife,’ Zandile Khumalo tells defence lawyer

Zandile Khumalo was undeterred even after Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng called her to order

Senzo Meyiwa. File photo by Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images/Getty Images

Senzo Meyiwa was shot while breaking up a fight, defence says

Zandile Khumalo dismissed the statement from an unnamed witness, denying that she had fought with Longwe Twala, her boyfriend at the time

Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng. (Mario van der Waal/Gallo Images)

Senzo Meyiwa: New judge restarts murder trial, nullifies all previous court proceedings

The defence says it needs to confirm its financial instructions from legal aid before commencing with the trial

Judge Maumela during the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial at Gauteng High Court. (Photo by Gallo Images/OJ Koloti)

Senzo Meyiwa trial: Application to ban media ‘a publicity stunt’

Media lawyer says the state’s next witness, who objected to the live broadcast of her testimony, commented on the trial at the Pretoria high court on social media

A state witness in the murder trial of Senzo Meyiwa told the Pretoria high court on Wednesday that he had been brutally assaulted for hours, and that two police officers were involved.

Meyiwa murder trial: Police allegedly involved in torture, assault of witness

State witness Mthokozisi Thwala claims a police officer ordered him to change his statement about events surrounding the 2014 killing of the footballer

Dan Teffo demanded that Judge Tshifhiwa Maumela meet him in chambers before the trial proceeded, saying he wanted to discuss “other issues” that could not be mentioned in public  (Gallo)

Senzo Meyiwa: Disbarred lawyer Dan Teffo makes dramatic court entrance

Teffo demanded that Judge Tshifhiwa Maumela meet him in chambers before the trial proceeded, saying he wanted to discuss “other issues” that could not be mentioned in public

One of the questions left unanswered, so far, at the Senzo Meyiwa trial is where Longwe Twala was moments after the footballer was shot

Senzo Meyiwa trial: Where was Longwe Twala after the footballer was shot?

Longwe, the son of music producer Chicco Twala, is the only adult unaccounted for shortly after Meyiwa was killed

Senzo Meyiwa and Kelly Khumalo were lovers when he was shot.
 (Photo by Gallo Images / Daily Sun / Lucky Morajane)

Senzo Meyiwa trial: ‘Kelly Khumalo ordered cops to leave her house’, witness testifies

Tumelo Madlala, Meyiwa’s childhood friend, testified that Chicco Twala wanted to pay for an overseas trip for Khumalo

Former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa. (Photo by Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Senzo Meyiwa trial: Slain footballer wrestled with intruder, third witness Tumelo Madlala says

Journalists were removed from the court on the first day of testimony from a witness who was inside the house at the time of the shooting

Delays: Sergeant Thabo Mosia during the murder trial of Senzo Meyiwa at the Pretoria high court. Photo: Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images

Senzo Meyiwa trial: Could Thabo Mosia have ended the state’s case?

A cluster of concessions from the forensic officer has cast doubts on the collection of evidence

Investigating officer Brigadier Bongani Gininda has denied that he offered R3 million to accused two, Bongani Ntanzi, to implicate the “right people” in the murder of football star Senzo Meyiwa. (Anesh Debiky/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Senzo Meyiwa trial: State witnesses contradict each other during testimony

Sergeant Mlungisi Mthethwa testified that forensic officer Thabo Mosia arrived before 10pm and not after midnight