JOHANNESBURG – Kelly Khumalo’s lawyer said that her client was hurt by the court’s decision to keep her out of the murder trial of her boyfriend, Senzo Meyiwa.

Magdalene Moonsamy was watching the case for Khumalo in the High Court in Pretoria when prosecutor George Baloyi asked her to leave. The lawyer for Kelly Khumalo doesn’t know much about the person who will testify against her client. This is giving her trouble because she doesn’t even know where she will protect her client.

 

This wasn’t the first time her presence was questioned. On Friday, defense lawyer Advocate Malesale Teffo said he was “uncomfortable” with Moonsamy being there, but the judge denied his request to have her leave.

Mosia didn’t answer Teffo’s questions and said he was tricked by a senior police official into deposing an affidavit for a parallel police docket that named singer Khumalo as one of the suspects in the death of the former Orlando Pirates goalkeeper.

Mosia said that Colonel Joyce Buthelezi wasn’t being honest when she asked him to sign the affidavit, which went against what he had said before, which was that the crime scene hadn’t been changed when he got there.

Teffo brought the second docket into court on Tuesday. He seemed to use its contents to argue against the idea that the crime scene hadn’t been changed.

On Monday, the judge in charge, Tshifiwa Maumela, agreed to what the prosecution asked for, saying it was “for the purity of the process.”

Moonsamy didn’t protest very loudly, but she did say that the proceedings were being shown live to the public anyway.

Moonsamy said that her client would be hurt by the decision.

Advocate Malesela Teffo, the lawyer for the defense, told the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday that he would call an eyewitness to testify that singer Kelly Khumalo was the one who accidentally killed former Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa.

Teffo, who is defending four of the five men on trial for killing Meyiwa, said the witness would also say that the gun used belonged to Longwe Twala, the son of famous music producer Sello “Chicco” Twala.

During the third day of cross-examination at the murder trial, this idea was put to state witness and evidence collector Thabo Mosia.

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