Senzo Meyiwa: Khumalo family blasted for cover-up of goalkeeper’s murder

The investigation into the murder of Senzo Meyiwa has been re-energised by recent developments.

AfriForum takes over Senzo Meyiwa prosecution

In a turn of events, the family of Senzo Meyiwa acted on their threats and approached AfriForum for help in bringing finality to a murder investigation that has dragged for five years.
The lobby group agreed to take the matter from the hands of the NPA, who have been called incompetent by the goalkeeper’s family. The prosecutorial side of the investigation will be led by Gerrie Nel, AfriForum’s head of private prosecutions.

Khumalo family blasted for cover-up of goalkeeper’s murder

Three days after the family held a media briefing to reveal the newly-established partnership, reports have surfaced of an alleged cover-up in the murder of Senzo Meyiwa.
Before Sunday Independent published its story on allegations around the Khumalo family’s involvement in the murder, it was always believed that Senzo Meyiwa was murdered in a robbery-gone-horribly-wrong.
The incident occurred at popular singer, Kelly Khumalo’s residence, in 2014. The story was that suspects allegedly entered the premises and held Khumalo and Meyiwa at gunpoint with the intent to rob the couple. At some point in the altercation, Meyiwa suffered fatal gunshot wounds.
However, prosecutors and investigators have always had trouble in piecing together this event and tracking down the alleged robbers.
According to the cited publication, this is because that version of events was allegedly concocted by the family, working with certain members of the police, to protect the person who actually killed Meyiwa.
In the damning report, it is believed that seven individuals, who are either related to Khumalo or part of the police force in Vosloorus, have actively withheld crucial information about what happened to the goalkeeper that fateful day.
This is what certain figures close to the situation claim happened to Meyiwa:

• Meyiwa was “accidentally” shot when he tried to intervene in a quarrel between Khumalo’s sister, Zandi, and her boyfriend, Longwe Twala (son of the legendary musician, Chicco Twala), at the singer’s mother’s home;
• Khumalo’s mother, Ntombi Gladness Khumalo, allegedly also handed Meyiwa’s phone to a neighbour;
• the former lead investigator in the case, Colonel Bongani Gininda, allegedly withheld a crucial statement he received in 2017 on who murdered Meyiwa and why; and
• Gininda would skirt prosecution on a defeating the ends of justice charge which was opened against him in May when he was mysteriously transferred to KwaZulu-Natal before he was arrested or questioned.

The singer, Khumalo, has faced mounting pressure, over the years, to reveal what she knows about what actually happened to her former lover.
She, however, and many others who were present on the day Meyiwa was murdered, have not been helpful in solving this case. At this time, there have been no arrests made.