'My mind froze as I tried to call 10111': Khumalo testifies on rush to save Senzo Meyiwa's life | News24

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'My mind froze as I tried to call 10111.' These were the words of Zandile Khumalo, who relayed to the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday about Senzo Meyiwa's last moments after he was shot during a robbery at her mother's house in 2014.

Five accused men in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial stand in the dock at Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.Five men accused of killing the late soccer star Senzo Meyiwa have pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Khumalo was one of the six people in the house where the Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper was shot. "When I came out of the bathroom, I saw Senzo was bleeding. I remembered that I hid my phone behind the cushion. I found my phone still there, I tried to dial 10111, but my mind just froze," she told the court.

Before the trial got under way, the prosecutor, advocate George Baloyi, read the charges against the five men. Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng reacts during the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial at Pretoria High Court in Pretoria.Baloyi also told the court that formal admissions had been agreed.

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