A new state witness in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial is expected to explain DNA findings when he takes the stand in the Pretoria High Court on Monday afternoon.
This after the defence objected to Sergeant Vusimuzi Mogane testifying about more cellphone evidence, stating that it was only provided with the extracts on Monday.
Advocate Zandile Mshololo, who represents accused number five, said she went on with the evidence brought forth by the previous witness, Colonel Lambertus Steyn, under the impression that the state would provide her with the section 205 evidence to a cellphone linked to her client.
“Before this witness is called, I object to the leading of the evidence of these videos,” Mshololo told the court.
“Reasons being that the evidence of this witness forms part of the cellphone evidence which includes copies or the evidence that was discovered last week.
“We were afforded with an opportunity to consult and to read the information, and it appears that the statement of this witness was also part of the bundle that was discovered to us on Wednesday, that evidence makes reference to the cellphone evidence that was confiscated from my client and accused number two’s cellphone.”
Mshololo said she has been asking the state for the disclosure of the section 205 cellphone evidence relating to the number linked to her client and the reference that has been made throughout the evidence.
This after Colonel Sizwe Zungu’s cross-examination was wrapped up earlier in the day.
Zungu revealed the details and whereabouts of the accused on the day that the Bafana Bafana star’s life was cut short.
He testified that he knew the accused before the murder of Meyiwa and told the court about a celebration held at a hostel in Vosloorus after the murder of the soccer star.
He said he was drinking with his nephew, known as Gwabeni, when three of the accused men – Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya, Bongani Sandiso Ntanzi, and Mthobisi Prince Mcube – suspiciously walked into his nephew’s room.
He said the accused were holding guns, testifying that Sibiya was in possession of a revolver while Mncube had a 9mm pistol, a weapon said to have been used to kill Meyiwa.
Zungu also told the court that he even had to move his family to safety after realising that his life was in danger.
“To all those who are alleging that I am lying about them, I had no reason to pick on them or to go around trashing their names. What I am saying is the truth as it happened,” he said.
He continued to speak of the identikit which he saw on a newspaper article dated October 28 2014, which the defence objected for re-examination, stating that it was new evidence.
Zungu had identified a black hoodie from the identikit as belonging to accused number two, claiming he saw the accused wearing it when moving to the main room at the hostel and suddenly changed it.
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