A confidential National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) document — which has been confirmed as authentic — has linked Senzo Meyiwa’s girlfriend Kelly Khumalo to a suspect in the Bafana Bafana captain’s murder.
Point 6 of the document, a letter from the NPA to the investigating officer in the case, Col Bongani Gininda, instructs police: “Cellphone records of Ms Kelly Khumalo indicating her communication with the accused must be obtained, as previously indicated.”
Meyiwa was killed at Khumalo’s mother’s home in Vosloorus in Ekurhuleni six years ago.
Attempts to get comment from Khumalo via phone and text message were unsuccessful. The police did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
It is not clear exactly when the document was drafted, with the NPA not answering questions to this effect when contacted on Tuesday afternoon.
Other requests the NPA made to police in the document, which do not relate to Khumalo, include that:
the investigating officer must file a statement detailing the events and circumstances leading to confessions made by accused 1 and accused 2 (named in court as Muzikawulahlelwa S’tembu Sibiya and Bongani Sandiso Ntanzi);the investigating officer must indicate how the pointings out by Sibiya fit in with the facts of the case; the cellphone communication between the accused — “before/during/after the commission of the offence” — must be obtained, inclusive of cell tower locations;
it must be established why Ekurhuleni metro police department officials, and not the police, transported the suspects to the confession; the vehicle tracking information of a “silver Polo” for the day of the murder, October 26 2014, must be obtained, as well as how one of the accused came into possession of the vehicle;
“ballistic reports have been duplicated”; and outstanding DNA reports from some of the suspects must be obtained.