Thulani Mngomezulu said evidence from the electronic national administration traffic information system was irrelevant to the murder trial
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 assigned to preside over the trial to start with
Lieutenant Colonel Christian Mangena’s reconstruction of the scene showed that two shots were fired in the house where the football player was killed
State witness Captain Bongani Mtshali says the only time the gun would have been in an unsealed bag was at the ballistics centre
Defence attorneys say there are discrepancies in the list of cases that officer Thabo Mosia attended to on the night the footballer was murdered
Defence advocate Zandile Mshololo reiterated the assertion that the bullet found in the kitchen was planted
Judge Ratha Ratha Mokgoatlheng rebukes state witness Tumelo Madlala after he calls the accused ‘dogs’
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
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 was undeterred even after Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng called her to order
Zandile Khumalo dismissed the statement from an unnamed witness, denying that she had fought with Longwe Twala, her boyfriend at the time
The defence says it needs to confirm its financial instructions from legal aid before commencing with the trial
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
State witness Mthokozisi Thwala claims a police officer ordered him to change his statement about events surrounding the 2014 killing of the footballer
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
Longwe, the son of music producer Chicco Twala, is the only adult unaccounted for shortly after Meyiwa was killed
Tumelo Madlala, Meyiwa’s childhood friend, testified that Chicco Twala wanted to pay for an overseas trip for Khumalo
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
A cluster of concessions from the forensic officer has cast doubts on the collection of evidence
Sergeant Mlungisi Mthethwa testified that forensic officer Thabo Mosia arrived before 10pm and not after midnight
Thabo Mosia ended his testimony by making more key concessions against the state’s allegations
Defence uses the late Brigadier Philani Ndlovu’s July 2019 affidavit to test state witness’s credibility
Defence advocate Zandile Mshololo applied for the state to be censured for allegedly not making full disclosures
Teffo, who accused the judge of trying to bewitch him, could still make a dramatic return to the trial
The defence advocate had earlier failed to obey a court order to file papers for his challenge to the Pretoria high court’s jurisdiction to adjudicate the murder trial
The National Prosecuting Authority has also been ordered to clarify where it stands on the second Meyiwa docket
The judge said he found it worrying that a police officer was present in his court
State witness in Senzo Meyiwa murder case says the crime scene may have been contaminated
Advocate Zandile Mshololo calls two case dockets for Meyiwa’s murder a ‘gross irregularity’
The police captain’s evidence in the Paralympian’s case resulted in a murder conviction
Advocate Dan Teffo, who represents four of the accused in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, is the perfect Hollywood lead
A dramatic court day during the Senzo Meyiwa trial ended with the arrest of defence advocate Dan Teffo, who had earlier spoken about a conspiracy involving senior officers and politicians in allegedly contaminating evidence of Meyiwa’s death. As soon as Judge Tshifhiwa Maumela adjourned the day’s proceedings, postponing the trial to 30 May, a gauntlet […]