Kelly Khumalo turned to her followers for morale support following shocking revelations that surfaced at the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, on Wednesday.
Watch: Kelly Khumalo posts cryptic video after Wednesday’s courtroom shocker
The self-proclaimed Voice of Africa rallied up support with a video of her driving in her car, bellowing the chorus to Todd Dulaney’s Victory Belongs to Jesus while staring intensely into the camera.
Khumalo’s smirky video clip was supported by this cryptic caption:
“Rise and shine for the glory of God has come! The Battle has been won! Thank you Lord!”
Kelly Khumalo, @kellykhumaloza / Instagram
Khumalo’s bizarre video surfaced hours after the Pretoria High Court concluded Wednesday’s explosive proceedings with a postponement. Judge Tshifhiwa Maumela, after accepting submissions from Advocate Zandile Mshololo, the defence attorney of the fifth suspect accused in the Meyiwa murder, postponed proceedings to Monday, 13 June 2022, to allow court date planners to drum up a proposed schedule for the trial.
This delay in the murder trial comes after Mshololo, in the midst of cross-examining the State’s first witness, evidence collector Sergeant Thabo Mosia, who was called to the crime scene by the late Brigadier Philani Ndlovu, on the day Meyiwa was shot and killed inside the home of Khumalo’s mother, Gladness, on 24 October 2014, told the court she needed time to study the contents of a second case docket on the goalkeeper’s death that was opened in 2019.
According to the defence attorney, Gauteng’s director public prosecutions, Advocate Andrew Chauke, had, at the time, recommended the arrests of seven suspects in the murder of Meyiwa, namely:
- Sello “Chicco” Twala;
- Kelly Khumalo;
- Gladness Khumalo;
- Zandi Khumalo;
- Meyiwa’s friends Tumelo Madlala and Mthokozisi Thwala; and
- the neighbour who bizarrely cleaned up the crime scene before it was processed for evidence, Maggie Phiri.
An exasperated Mshololo complained to the judge about the inconvenience she and and her client, Fisokuhle Ntuli, were subjected to by the State’s late submission of a case docket they have been aware of since 23 March 2022.
in a shocking turn of events, Mshololo succeeded in putting a halt to the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, something her fellow defence attorney Advocate Malesela Teffo could not pull off in the past week.
“We are sitting with a critical situation here where I’m seeking clarity from the [NPA] where they decided not to charge some people, and then charged other people. The NPA has no right to charge people how they want,” Mshololo said.
Maumela hesitantly concurred with Mshololo and called a postponement to proceedings until Monday, 13 June 2022.
“I keep in mind that there is a family that lost its son”, he said.