The State is expected to recall investigating officer in the Senzo Meyiwa case when the trial resumes on Tuesday morning.
Five men are on trial at the High Court in Pretoria for the murder of the soccer star who was shot and killed in 2014.Earlier traditional healer Robert Lionel Zwane was called to the stand. He testified that three men came to him asking for herbal medicine for good luck for a job.
Zwane from Palm Ridge in Ekurhuleni, says those same men came back, seeking to be cleansed saying things did not go well as someone was injured. “With us when somebody had passed on in the family, there is some ritual cleansing of the members of the family. The same principle I applied here when they came, because they crossed path with some misfortune and as a result, I had to assist them with ritual cleansing. I gave them ishlanzi sokugeza.
Two years later, on 9 February 2015, accused 3 Mthobisi Mncube was arrested and the gun was found on top of his wardrobe in his room in Malvern, Johannesburg. “It was stolen during the cash in transit robbery in 2013 in Rabie Ridge in May. And it was reported to the police. It was at a shopping centre in Rabie Ridge,” says Smuts.
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