Colonel Lambertus Steyn, a police cellphone data analyst, was back on the witness stand today and faced cross-examination from the defence attorney of the five accused in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial. Steyn told the court that cellphone records suggest that none of the people in the Khumalo house called the police on the night Meyiwa was killed.

Cross-examined by Advocate Sipho Ramosepele, who is the defence for accused one and two, Steyn confirmed that he checked all the phones of the people who were in the house on the night Senzo was killed but there was no record of any of them contacting emergency services and the police. "What you are saying here is that Kelly Khumalo and this number that we know is attributed to her did not call the police on the day of the incident?" Ramosepele asked. "That is correct," Steyn said with Ramosepele further probing whether MaKhumalon (Kelly's mother), Tumelo Madlala, Longwe Twala, and Mthokozisi Thwala called emergercy services or police. "I didn't find any calls from the police, not even 10111, from any of the phones that were in my possession for analysis," Steyn said. Zandie Khumalo, who is Kelly Khumalo's sister testified that after Senzo was shot, she reached for her cellphone but that she had a mind block and forgot the police emergency number.

Ramosepele added that his client, accused number 2 Bongani Ntanzi had no connection with any of the accused. "My client only got the number that was analysed by the police in 2019 yet Meyiwa was killed in 2014,"Ramosepele said. Steyn highlighted that, " The suspect just admitted that it's his number. I testified in court last week that the suspects know each other and yes in 2014 the phone number was not registered with RICA as his but it could have been registered by a family member," Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya, Bongani Sandiso Ntanzi, Mthobisi Prince Mncube, Mthokoziseni Maphisa, and Sifisokuhle Nkani Ntuli are accused of the premeditated murder of Senzo in October 2014. The trial continues.