Senzo Meyiwa

Advocate Malesela Teffo said he has been labelled as a problematic lawyer who will disturb a plan hatched by the State and as a result, he has received ...

“I came into this case knowing what will be the consequences. “Can you please talk about withdrawal? The adjournment came after Teffo said he wanted to challenge the jurisdiction of the court saying the matter should be heard at the Johannesburg High Court and not at the Pretoria High Court.

Advocate Malesela Teffo withdrew as counsel for four of the accused in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday.

He also had an issue with not being able to call his family. Instead, he doubled down and claimed that the plan was to frame the accused for the murder of Meyiwa. He inferred that Mncube was either being tortured or assaulted.

Advocate Malesela Teffo, who is defending four of the accused in the Senzo Meyiwa trial, wants the court to hear a letter by one of the accused on ...

Now it is about to be read into the record when we have not had sight of the letter to prepare,” she said. However, Zandile Mshololo, advocate for Ntuli, said she had not seen the letter as per procedure. “My client was kidnapped from Johannesburg prison and sent to Kgosi Mampuru. My client is suffering.

Adv Malesela Teffo has withdrawn from representing four of the five men accused of killing Bafana star Senzo Meyiwa.

The docket was brought to the attention of the court during the testimony of the first state witness, forensic expert Sgt Thabo Mosia. Since the beginning of trial, Teffo has been the centre of attention through his conduct and theatrics in the Pretoria high court. He was the first defence lawyer to bring to the attention of the court that there was a second docket in which Kelly Khumalo and all who were in the house where Meyiwa was killed, were the accused.

Pretoria – Counsel for four of the five men arrested for the murder of Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates ace goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa, is expected to ...

What is the best way Your Lordship (Presiding Judge Tshifhiwa Maumela), I want to say for the f***** up situation”. Thank you.” At one point, Teffo apologised after he used foul language in court.

Defence lawyer Advocate Malesela Teffo, who is representing four the five men accused of murdering Orlando Pirates and Bafana Bafana skipper Senzo Meyiwa ...

“There has been harassment from the police and the National Prosecuting Authority that I should not be a part of his case. I took it upon myself to represent them after I was approached by their families and the Meyiwa family,” Teffo said. He said he was kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and had not access to radio or newspapers.

Advocate Malesela Teffo on Tuesday withdrew from the ongoing Senzo Meyiwa murder trial at the Pretoria High Court citing that he is not.

“The rights of accused one to four are undermined by granting [a] postponement, their right to speedy trial will be affected. “On July 4, the correspondent was received. Teffo, who was representing accused one to four, said his withdrawal was as a result of harassment from the state and court. “However, no heads have been received from Teffo on those two aspects. “I deserve and demand respect from this court. Earlier in the day Teffo abandoned his application to challenge the jurisdiction of the Pretoria High Court to hear the murder trial.

The controversial advocate Malesela Teffo representing accused number one to four in the trial was arrested inside the courtroom in April on charges of ...

“But as I mentioned we respect the route that Teffo is taking. “On April 28, when I was arrested before your lordship, that was the plan. And the plan was hatched in the office of the president (Cyril Ramaphosa); the number one office of the number one in the country says that I am a problematic advocate.

The trial of five men accused of killing Senzo Meyiwa has had yet another dramatic twist, with Adv Malesela Teffo withdrawing as counsel for accused one to ...

He said the plan was hatched to get the accused in the matter to take responsibility for Meyiwa’s murder. Teffo claimed that the plan to get him off the case was hatched in the president’s office. I will no longer be able to proceed in this court based on the harassment that I have faced from the state and from the court.

One of the men accused of murdering former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa failed in his bid to get the court to address his prison conditions.

Maumela said the letter and Mncube's testimony had nothing to do with the matter before the court - and that nothing was forthcoming on which he could make a ruling. Maumela said he was propelled to allow the letter and testimony because he was under the impression that Mncube's life was under threat. He said prison conditions had been better in Johannesburg, where he had been serving a sentence for a separate crime before being transferred to Pretoria to stand trial for the Meyiwa murder. According to the letter, Mncube said he had been subjected to inhumane conditions at the prison. The court was set to hear a challenge on whether it had jurisdiction to hear the trial. - In a letter, he said he was kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and did not have access to a television, radio or newspaper.

Khumalo-Gumede took to her Instagram to write a lengthy caption lashing out at Teffo. Story continues below Advertisement. She wrote: “It looks ...

- ‘Nobody knew who Senzo Meyiwa was,’ says Kelly Khumalo - Kelly Khumalo steals show as Senzo Meyiwa murder trial resumes “It really pains me that this case doesn’t look like it will be solved any time soon because South Africa believe opportunists and populists like this one, it pains me because it means the Meyiwa family will never get justice and it pains me because it means my family will forever live under this dark cloud, this one claimed he had an eyewitness uphi (where)?”