Singer Kelly Khumalo allegedly ordered and paid hitmen to kill the father of her child and former Bafana Bafana captain, Senzo Meyiwa.
Lead investigator Brigadier Bongani Gininda revealed this at the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday, 24 January.
KELLY KHUMALO PAID HITMEN TO KILL SENZO MEYIWA
Gininda is under cross-examination in the trial within a trial that seeks to determine the admissibility of confessions allegedly made by accused 1 Muzi Sibiya and 2 Bongani Ntanzi.
On Wednesday, Gininda told the court that both Sibiya and Ntanzi named the Ngathwala Ngaye hitmaker as the person who hired them to kill the former Orlando Pirates captain.
“He is further linked by means of a formal confession he made to the commissioned independent officer on 30 May 2020. In this confession, he clearly implicated Miss Kelly Khumalo as the person who gave them the instruction to Kill Senzo Meyiwa,” he said referring to accused 1.
On Monday, Gininda told the court that evidence under oath indicates that the murder of the Orlando Pirates goalkeeper was a contractual assassination or hit and not a robbery gone wrong.
As previously reported by The South African, Meyiwa was shot dead at the home of his girlfriend, Kelly Khumalo, in Vosloorus, Gauteng, on 26 October 2014, in what was initially thought to be an alleged botched robbery.
Five men are on trial for the murder of the soccer star, Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya, Bongani Ntanzi, Mthobisi Prince Mncube, Mthokoziseni Maphisa and Fisokuhle Nkani Ntuli.
The men face charges of premeditated murder, attempted murder, robbery with aggravated circumstances, possession of firearms without a licence, and possession of ammunition. All five men pleaded not guilty.
In July 2022, Colonel Lambertus Steyn testified that Ntuli called Khumalo on two occasions on 2 August 2014 and 15 October 2014. The first call was for close to two minutes, and the other was one and a half minutes.
Ntuli is a well-known hitman linked to six murders in KwaZulu-Natal and was sentenced to six life terms and 39 years in January 2022.
