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Inside the High Court in Pretoria where the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial is taking place.
The third witness regarding one of the accused, Bongani Ntanzi, in the Senzo Meyiwa murder case, Police Colonel Silas Thoka, is expected to continue with his testimony at the High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday morning.
Thoka, the station commander at Villieria police station, says he did not receive any complaint regarding Ntanzi allegedly being in possession of a cellphone.
Ntanzi and four others are on trial for the 2014 murder of former Bafana Bafana captain.
On Tuesday, Thoka told the court he had no knowledge of any official complaint relating to the cellphone allegedly found in Ntanzi’s possession.
Legal counsel Sipho Ramosepele asked Thoko: “They asked Mr Ntanzi nonchalantly to produce the phone that he is alleged to be having in his possession, and that Mr Ntanzi then retrieved that phone and gave it to them.”
Thoko replied: “I have no information relating to that, my lord.”
Ramosepele then asked: “That the phone was retrieved and packaged in the presence of Ntanzi and then taken to Villieria. The following day, the phone was taken for downloading at the Tactical Support Unit in Mpumalanga on the 8th of February 2021. Do you know anything about that?”
Thoko replied: “I don’t have any idea about that. But if there were any items found in the cell, they should have been returned and registered, my lord.”
