SPRUITVIEW – A police captain investigating the Senzo Meyiwa murder case has allegedly pulled out of the probe after her recommendation that those present in the house on the night of the murder, including Kelly Khumalo, be charged and arrested for lying to the police, the Times LIVE reported.
On Monday, September 14, a report by Times LIVE said, “Captain Joyce Buthelezi made recommendations to a committee dealing with the case that police arrest and charge everyone in the house on the night of the murder with perjury and defeating the ends of justice.”
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It is believed that when the committee overseeing the probe allegedly rejected one of her key recommendations, she pulled out of the investigation, according to a Sunday World report.
According to reports, Buthelezi allegedly received death threats after making the recommendation.
While reports stated that national police spokesperson Lieutenant General Solomon Makgale confirmed that Captain Buthelezi has left the team, he informed Sunday World that no one received death threats.
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The former Orlando Pirates and Bafana Bafana goalkeeper, Meyiwa, was shot and killed in what appeared to be a botched armed robbery at his girlfriend Kelly Khumalo’s house in Spruitview on the East Rand last October.
Witnesses in the house on the night of the murder are Khumalo and her sister Zandi, the son of music producer Chicco Twala, Longwe, and the goalkeeper’s friends Tumelo Madladla and Mthokozisi Twala.
