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The trial has struggled to resume following the death of defence advocate Thulani Mngomezulu, who died in December 2024.
Advocate Charles Mnisi told the court that he would drop Muzi Sibiya as a client if Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng does not give a longer postponement, a request declined by the judge.
The decade-long search for justice in former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa's murder continues as five accused men return to the Pretoria High Court on Monday.
From national team captains to promising young talents, South African football has lost numerous stars to violent crime.
Despite the controversies, Kelly Khumalo continues to get booked, and her supporters attend her events from far and wide, ready to sing and dance with their favourite artist.
As the Senzo Meyiwa trial continues to unfold in the Pretoria High Court, the death of Thulani Mngomezulu, the lawyer representing one of the accused in the murder trial has sent deep sadness across the country.
The zama zamas at Stilfontein should be brought to the surface and made to face the music for their actions.
Mthobisi Mncube’s legal team has recently told the court in the Senzo Meyiwa murder that the accused man has been kept in solitary confinement for four years.
As she celebrated her birthday, the award-winning singer revealed that after 15 years she is now a certified traditional healer.
Ten years after the tragic death of Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa, his family speaks exclusively about their journey towards justice, their relationship with the Khumalo family, and their enduring hope for closure in the ongoing murder trial.
Its been exactly 10 years since football star Senzo Meyiwa was gunned down in an alleged contract killing in Vosloorus, yet, no one has been convicted for his murder.
Sello ‘Chicco’ Twala discussed the unresolved murder case of footballer Senzo Meyiwa, nearly a decade after his death.
The Meyiwa family said the State is failing to place the five men accused of killing soccer star Senzo Meyiwa at the crime scene.
It is alleged that the duo broke into their father’s studios while on drugs and stole equipment worth thousands of rand.
Longwe Twala is alleged to have stolen music equipment worth thousands.
The complaints against Teffo to the council came before he took on the Meyiwa case as legal counsel for several of the accused.
Khumalo recently released the visuals for her latest song, ‘Uyathandwa’.
The Democratic Alliance is calling for the Cold Case Unit to take over the search for missing Saldanha Bay six-year-old, Joshlin Smith.
As the trial resumed on Monday following a two-week postponement due to evidence related to the cellphone communication between all the accused dating back to 2018, the defence counsel accused the State of engaging in a trial by ambush.
A DISPUTE over a cellphone number allegedly belonging to one of the five men on trial for the murder of Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa, has stalled proceedings in the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria. As the murder trial of Meyiwa resumed in the high court, defence counsels requested the proceedings be postponed to afford them time to go through documents supplied to them by the State on Monday.
Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya claims that he left Gauteng in 2013 and only returned in 2015. However, his bank statements show that he was in the province and made several transactions in Johannesburg between September and October 2014.
BANK records obtained by the State have revealed that the first murder accused in the Senzo Meyiwa trial was in fact in Gauteng and around Vosloorus before and after the murder of the Orlando Pirates soccer player. Contrary to Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya’s testimony claiming that he left Gauteng in 2013 and only returned in 2015, the State has once more proven that this was untrue as they brought bank statements of the accused men to court.
DEFENCE counsel for the first murder accused in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, advocate Thulani Mngomezulu, has told the court that he feared for his safety. Mngomezulu, counsel for Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya, one of five men on trial for the October 2014 murder of the Orlando Pirates player, told presiding Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng that fears for his safety came as a result of two individuals who trespassed at his residence.
The judge said advocate Thulani Mngomezulu reported to him that two suspicious looking men came to his house on Wednesday morning and it seemed like their intentions were to harm him.
In October 2020, the National Prosecuting Authority erroneously sent an internal memo to a media group which placed Kelly Khumalo at the centre of the Meyiwa murder trial.