AfriForum's Gerrie Nel to represent Meyiwa family
Civil rights organisation AfriForum says it will help police dig deeper as they work to solve the case of the murdered former Bafana Bafana player Senzo Meyiwa.
The Durban-born goalkeeper was shot and killed five years ago at a house in Vosloorus on Gauteng's East Rand.
The Meyiwa family reached out to AfriForum to help move the case forward saying the National Prosecution Authority (NPA) has been dragging its feet.
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The NPA says it's since met with Meyiwa's family to explain why prosecution can't go ahead at this stage.
On Tuesday, AfriForum announced that its taking up the case and that their head of the private prosecutions unit Advocate Gerrie Nel will represent the Meyiwa family.
AfriForum's CEO Kallie Kriel says the case needs to be wrapped up.
"The most important issue here is that this case gets solved, so we are more than willing to work with the police. In the first instance this is the police's job to solve this, but we have the capacity in our private prosecutions unit - with some of the best investigators - that can assist. Any information that we do find we will of course share with the police," he said.
Kriel says Meyiwa's family deserves justice.
"First they are going to listen to recordings of interaction that the family had with various role players, where various things were said to them that we believe can be used to try and solve this case."
"We cannot promise that we can be able to solve this, but the promise we can give is that we do our very best to make sure that we do everything we can to see that justice is done," he said.
