The National Prosecuting Authority must either destroy the second docket in the Senzo Meyiwa murder case, or use it and the implicated people must be arrested.
Whenever the document is mentioned it causes confusion and raises questions whether the state has the right people on trial.
On Monday, a story broke that Pretoria director of public prosecutions Sibongile Mzinyathi had said a decision on the second docket would be made at the end of the ongoing trial.
We first heard about the docket in June when the former advocate of four of the suspects, Malesela Teffo, spoke about it in the high court in Pretoria. It lists Meyiwa's girlfriend, singer Kelly Khumalo, and all those who were on the scene of the murder in 2014, as suspects.
However, yesterday the NPA said its correspondence on the issue was to the counsel in the case who had asked what would happen to docket.
NPA spokesperson Lumka Mahanjana said the docket was opened by two police officers in 2019 who "were apparently frustrated by the lack of progress in the investigation…" She said the initial suspicions were thrown out after the suspects currently on trial were apprehended in 2020.
It is strange for one case to have two dockets so whenever the second one is mentioned it hits headlines because of the interest it creates.
What the NPA needs to understand is that the Meyiwa family has been waiting for eight years to see this matter go to trial. The whole uncertainty that is invoked whenever the docket is mentioned is unfair to them.
Have compassion, all the family wants is justice to be served by seeing the real killers go to jail.
The publicity around the docket fuels the question whether the people who were in the house that night should have been arrested. Having the matter constantly hanging over them is also not good; we have reported on Khumalo being booed while on stage and threatened over this case in the past.
The Khumalos and all those who were there have rights; if there is evidence charge them, if not get rid of the second docket and let them be.
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