Tumelo Madlala, a long-time friend of Senzo Meyiwa, said he can’t comment on what Kelly Khumalo claimed in her statement about what happened when the former Bafana Bafana captain was gunned down in a suspected robbery in 2014.
On Thursday, Madlala was cross-examined in the Meyiwa murder trial at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.
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Advocate Zithulele Nxumalo, who represents one of the five men accused of murdering Meyiwa, delivered a statement made by Khumalo to police after her ex-boyfriend was shot.
“I saw a spot of blood on his back and then I turned him over and I saw a lot of blood on his chest,” Nxumalo said, reading from the singer’s statement.
“He fell onto the couch and I held him while screaming for help. At that time, the gunman was still in the house and my son was standing next to him,” he quoted.
Nxumalo claimed the statement contradicted Madlala’s testimony, claiming he saw little blood coming from the chest.
Madlala refuted Khumalo’s claim. “I don’t know what she was talking about, she must come and explain that because even the blood she’s talking about, I didn’t see it, I only saw blood spots,” he said.
“Please put that statement aside and let that person come here and explain that nonsense.”
Nxumalo went on further and pointed out other contradictions which were made by other witnesses.
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Madlala argued that he could not comment on what others mentioned in their statements. “I’m here for my statement and what I saw, everyone will come and explain their side, I can’t be saying anything on their behalf,’’ he said.
Meyiwa was killed in an alleged attempted robbery on October 26, 2014, at the Khumalo household.
Kelly Khumalo and her younger sister, Zandile, their mother Ntombi Khumalo (MaKhumalo), Longwe Twala, Meyiwa’s friends, Mthokozisi Thwala and Tumelo Madlala, Kelly’s then four-year-old son, Christian, and Thingo, her daughter with Meyiwa were all present on the day Meyiwa was murdered.
Murderers Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya, Bongani Sandiso Ntanzi, Mthobisi Mncube, Mthokoziseni Maphisa, and Sifisokuhle Ntuli are on trial.
