NPA remains confident Senzo Meyiwa accused ‘are the right ones’
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says it’s confident that the people they have arrested in the Senzo Meyiwa murder case are strongly linked to the crime.
The five accused again voiced their innocence in the Boksburg Magistrate's Court on Friday morning.
The head of AfriForum’s private prosecutions unit, Advocate Gerrie Nel, expressed his disappointment that the mastermind behind the murder has not yet been arrested.
Nel represents the Meyiwa family.
NPA spokesperson Sipho Ngwema says the case was postponed to allow the police to finalise forensic investigations.
“The murder case of Senzo Meyiwa has been postponed to March 2021. This is to allow the investigating team and prosecutors to consolidate the report from the forensic investigations, but also to make sure that information is consolidated into indictment so that the form and shape of the formal charge sheet is informed by development around the forensic investigation.
Ngwema says they are confident that the state will be able to secure a conviction.
“The accused remain in custody and the matter will return on the 5th March next year. We feel confident that we have a good case, and we are very certain that the accused we have right now are the right ones. We don’t rule out the possibility of adding more accused depending on how forensic reports and other follow up investigations conclude.
“We will be led by evidence and if evidence take sus to other people, certainly those people will be arrested, charged, and be added to the current accused.”
