According to tabloid Sunday World, the SA Police Service (SAPS) and the elite investigating unit the Hawks are at loggerheads over the investigation of late Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa’s killing.
A “top-placed source” within the Hawks told the paper that the Hawks were “working on the case and making significant progress” but were then “all of a sudden” removed from the case by the SAPS’s divisional commissioner of detective services in Pretoria, Major General Kotsi Nkomo.
The Hawks source said they had managed to gather a lot of evidence that the police had missed and even had potential witnesses that were “going to help us find the perpetrators”.
However, the acting police commissioner, Khomotso Phahlane, said that the tabloid had been told a fiction and that the claims were misleading.
Meyiwa was killed during a shooting at the home of his girlfriend Kelly Khumalo in Vosloorus in October 2014. He and Khumalo had a child together, though the goalkeeper was married to Zanokuhle Mbatha. Khumalo was not allowed to attend the funeral.
The Hawks source told the publication that they had “discovered” that Meyiwa was not the target of the shooting and had merely been “in the wrong place at the wrong time”.
No major breakthroughs have yet been announced in the case.
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