Nthabiseng Mokete made the revelation during her evidence in the ongoing murder trial of Senzo Meyiwa at the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday.

Kelly Khumalo’s Vosloorus neighbour, Nthabiseng said she saw three people flee from near the scene where the Bafana Bafana captain was shot in 2014.

She is the second neighbour to testify in the new trial since proceedings resumed more than a week ago.

In her previous testimony, Zandile Khumalo told the court that her then-boyfriend, Longwe Twala, was the first to flee from the scene after a shot was fired in a scuffle with two intruders.

Although Mokete said she doesn’t know the identity of the first person she saw running past her, she described the runner as a tall man.

After less than an hour of cross-examination in the Pretoria high court on Wednesday, the Khumalo’s first next-door neighbour called as a witness, Khaya Ngcatshe, was excused by the court.

On Tuesday Ngatshe told the court he had heard an unusual noise coming from the Khumalo house while he was in his bedroom that night, and immediately went to check through a window facing the Khumalo house.

“I first heard some commotion, shouting, like people were pushing each other. What caught my attention was the sound of a banging door like the door was roughly closed.”

After joining a search initiated by other neighbours for people who had been seen running down the street, and finding no-one, he went back to the Khumalo home, where he saw a wounded Meyiwa lying in the passage.

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The murder of Senzo Meyiwa who was killed at the Vosloorus, Gauteng, family home of his lover, Kelly Khumalo, in what the state alleges was a robbery gone wrong. The trial continues, and Singer Zandile Khumalo has told the High Court in Pretoria that she can’t say for sure that her sister, Kelly, did not pull the trigger of a gun that killed soccer star, Senzo Meyiwa.

The former Bafana Bafana captain was in a relationship with Kelly when he was shot in what’s believed to be a botched robbery at the Khumalo home in Voslorus in 2014.

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) had a charge sheet that included singer Kelly Khumalo and Longwe Twala, son of record producer Sello “Chicco” Twala, being prosecuted for the murder of footballer Senzo Meyiwa in October 2014. read more…