Former advocate accuses Bheki Cele of interfering in Senzo Meyiwa probe

By Khulile Thwala

A new twist has emerged in the murder trial of former Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates captain Senzo Meyiwa after former advocate Malesela Teffo opened a case of defeating the ends of justice against South African Police Minister Bheki Cele.

Teffo claims that Police Minister Cele convened a special meeting in Cape Town in 2020 with top law enforcement officials.

“That meeting was intended to compromise the current court proceedings of the trial of the five men accused of murdering Meyiwa in 2014. The docket for that case is identified as Vosloorus case 636/10/2014,” alleges Teffo.

According to a report published by News24, Teffo’s affidavit, which was deposed to at the Sandton Police Station earlier this month, alleges that the meeting was convened by Cele from November 20 to 22 2020 at the parliamentary precinct.

It was held to ensure that the parallel docket – cited as Vosloorus 375/1/2019 – which implicates Meyiwa’s then-lover Kelly Khumalo and six other people who were present when the footballer was shot at Khumalo’s mother’s house in Vosloorus on October 26 2014, should never see a day in court.