Ntombi Khumalo, the mother of singers Kelly and Zandie Khumalo, allegedly took Longwe Twala to a sangoma for purification after Senzo Meyiwa’s murder in 2014.

 

This is contained in a statement written by the sangoma, Sunday World reports.

LONGWE TWALA ‘WENT TO SAME SANGOMA AS KELLY AND ZANDIE KHUMALO’
During the trial-within-a-trial on Wednesday, 24 January, the lead investigator in the case, Brigadier Bongani Gininda, revealed that Kelly Khumalo went to a traditional healer for cleansing after Meyiwa’s death.

According to Sunday World, Kelly was accompanied by her sister Zandie. The sangoma allegedly revealed in a statement that the siblings consulted her for a cleansing ritual, which she conducted.

The sangoma also reportedly revealed that Kelly’s mother took Longwe to the same sangoma days later. This was allegedly after Longwe told her that he was being haunted by a dead person.

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MASTERMIND AND MONEY BAG
In Gininda’s affidavit, which he deposed in November 2020, accused number one and two (Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya and Bongani Ntanzi) implicated Khumalo as the person who allegedly ordered the hit.

Meyiwa was shot dead inside Khumalo’s family home in Vosloorus in October 2014. Khumalo; her sister, Zandile; Zandile’s boyfriend, Longwe Twala; the singer’s mother, Ntombi Khumalo; and two of Meyiwa’s friends, Mthokozisi Thwala and Tumelo Madlala, were all in the house that fateful day.

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Earlier this week, the court heard that Meyiwa’s murder was not a botched robbery, as initially portrayed by the witnesses. It was rather a contractual assassination.

The affidavit further revealed that there were four cellphone numbers linked to Khumalo which she did not disclose. Investigations showed that these numbers linked Khumalo to accused number three, Mthobisi Ncube, and accused number five, Fisokuhle Ntuli.

“It was further discovered that, through cellphone analysis, her cellphone memory album has the same photo of a see-through bag containing cash notes and in the exact position or location or spot as that of accused number three.”

Gininda said there is no reasonable explanation as to why Khumalo would be in contact with her boyfriend’s killers.

Furthermore, communication records between the musician and her sister disclosed that she allegedly wanted to “get rid of the deceased as early as 2013”.