Ntanzi wraps up testimony, maintains innocence in Meyiwa trial

FILE | A man holds Senzo Meyiwa’s picture during his memorial at the Moses Mabida Stadium in Durban.

Accused 2 in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, Bongani Ntanzi, has concluded his testimony at the High Court in Pretoria. Ntanzi and four others are on trial for the 2014 murder of Senzo Meyiwa, who was shot and killed at the parental home of Kelly Khumalo in Vosloorus on Gauteng’s East Rand.

He first took the stand in February this year.

Ntanzi, who is said to have made two confession statements, spent months on the witness stand denying any involvement in Meyiwa’s murder.

He distanced himself from the signed statements that allegedly detail the roles played by all the accused in the killing.

The statements also claim that Kelly Khumalo ordered the hit on the former Bafana Bafana captain. However, responding to his legal counsel Sipho Ramosepele, Ntanzi refused to be drawn into the contents of the statements.

Ramosepele: Now every time you appended your signature on the pro forma and on the statement, is it your own freely expressed account of how things unfolded during the murder of Meyiwa on the 26th of October 2014?

Ntanzi: No, my lord. There is nothing that I said. I know nothing about the death of Senzo Meyiwa.

Ntanzi says, as a citizen, he is also seeking answers on who is really responsible for the death of the national captain.

“As a person that follows soccer and as a South African citizen, I would also like to know who killed Senzo.”

A new witness is expected to be called when the trial resumes on Monday morning.