THE cellphone of one of the accused in the former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa's murder trial takes centre stage in the North Gauteng High Court on Tuesday, 16 April.
On Monday, 15 April, Sergeant Vusumuzi Mogane was recalled to testify. He alleged that accused two Bongani Ntanzi and accused five Fisokuhle Ntuli were found with cellphones while at Villieria Police Station in Pretoria and Qalakabusha Prison in Empangeni, respectively, at different periods.
“In February 2021, the late Sergeant Mabena said we should meet at Villieria Police Station. We told the police we wanted to visit Ntanzi's cell. They accompanied us there and opened. On our arrival, we found out the accused had a cellphone while in custody,” he said.
He said he was staying alone in his cell at that time.
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“The following day we took that phone to Middleburg for downloading at the Forensic Investigation and registered the cellphone,” he said.
Another witness, Sibusiso Yaka, informed Mogane and lead investigator Bongani Gininda about the discovery of a cellphone in Ntuli's cell at Qalakabusha Prison.
Yaka, who served as the head of Qalakabusha Prison from May 2014 to June 2021, said he handed the cellphone to Mogane and Gininda.
“I opened the cell and there were three males and the particular one whose name I had, I said to Ntuli bring the cellphone. I asked him to hand over the phone. He removed it from the bed where he was lying and gave it to me,” he said.
Five men stand accused of Meyiwa's 2014 murder in Vosloorus at his then girlfriend’s family house Kelly Khumalo.
The trial continues.
