The lawyer for two of the five men accused of murdering Senzo Meyiwa has poked holes in eyewitness Mthokozisi Thwala's version of what happened on the day the former Orlando Pirates and Bafana Bafana goalkeeper was shot dead.| AlexMitchley
This was because, in his testimony, Thwala described how one of the people in the house at the time ran past one of the armed intruders without being harmed or stopped, something advocate Sipho Ramosepele does not believe happened.
Thwala was back on the stand in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Monday where he is being cross-examined as an eyewitness.Bongani Ntanzi, Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya, Mthobisi Ncube, Mthokoziseni Maphisa and Fisokuhle Ntuli are on trial for the murder of Meyiwa, who was shot dead on 26 October 2014.
Ramosepele, who is representing two of the accused, started his line of questioning by confirming Thwala's testimony that they had been in a house in Vosloorus, when two intruders came in through the kitchen door and walked into the lounge where everyone was gathered.In his testimony, Thwala said the first intruder had been armed with a gun, and that the second had a sharp object which could have been a knife.
Thereafter, Meyiwa and others had jumped up and a scuffle had ensued between them and the intruders, before a gunshot went off. Ramosepele put it to Thwala that his version of Twala pushing a gunman aside and running away was untrue.He added that Thwala's version was at odds with a"real live robbery situation".The gunman did not try to restrain Twala from leaving the house.The second intruder armed with a knife/sharp object did not prevent Twala from leaving the house.Twala, being the first to leave did not sound the alarm and call for help.
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