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State witness, Mthokozisi Khumalo, has told the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria that in January 2019, the month the docket was opened, he was suddenly picked up by two police officers at his Umlazi home in Durban.

A journalist takes a picture of the accused in court, August 2, 2022.

State witness, Mthokozisi Khumalo, has told the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria that in January 2019, the month the docket was opened, he was suddenly picked up by two police officers at his Umlazi home in Durban under the pretext that he was going to attend an identification parade. He says it would later turn out the real reason he was picked up was to torture him to admit having been the one who had killed Meyiwa on the night of 26 October 2014.

He says he was under the impression that the parade would be in Pietermaritzburg but he was told it would held in Johannesburg. He says he was driven all the way to Gauteng where he was taken to the office of the Investigating Officer of the second docket, Lieutenant-Colonel Joyce Buthelezi in Pretoria where he was tortured throughout the night.

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