Senzo Meyiwa Case: Former Chiefs Player Appointed as Judge

• Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng will oversee proceedings in the ongoing Senzo Meyiwa murder trial against five accused
• The Bafana keeper was shot dead in Vosloorus in 2014 but no one has yet been brought to book for his murder
• Like Meyiwa, Mokgoatlheng also played for Orlando Pirates and also played for Kaizer Chiefs while studying

The Senzo Meyiwa murder case will resume later this month (July 2023) and will have a new judge in charge of proceedings.

The previous judge, Tshifhiwa Maumela, was suspended last week and a former football player has now been brought in to oversee the case.

As noted by Times LIVE, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) are expected to announce Ratha Mokgoatlheng as the new presiding judge.

He will decide the fate of five men accused of the murder of the former Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper, who was murdered in 2014.

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In the nearly nine years since, no one has been convicted. As noted by EWN, Meyiwa was shot dead inside Kelly Khumalo’s home in the Zamo section of Vosloorus.

Who is Ratha Mokgoatlheng?

The new judge in the matter is a former footballer who once turned out for both Soweto giants. Nicknamed Jimmy Greaves, he first joined the Buccaneers but didn’t spend too long at the club before he was expelled.

City Press then reports that he went on to co-found Kaizer Chiefs with Kaizer Motaung before he began studying law.

Mokgoatlheng explained that he took up law because of his admiration for Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, and was admitted as an attorney in 1976 while still with the Amakhosi.

After 30 years in law, the former Chiefs player was appointed as an acting judge. In 2007, he was appointed as a full-time judge on the bench.

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Khoza haunted by Meyiwa's death

Orlando Pirates chairman, Irvin Khoza remains troubled by Meyiwa's murder and haunted that no one has answered for the murder.

The Bafana Bafana goalkeeper was shot dead in the house of his then-girlfriend, Kelly Khumalo, in Vosloorus in November 2014.

As Sports Brief previously reported, five men are currently on trial for the shooting of Meyiwa, nine years after it was committed.