Tracker expert: Longwe Twala’s vehicle was parked at the Meyiwa murder scene
Tracker master, Maria Pretorius has been going through the development of a vehicle said to be driven by Longwe Twala the night Senzo Meyiwa was killed.
Twala was one of the individuals display interior the Khumalo domestic in Vosloorus on Gauteng’s East Rand, when two affirmed gatecrashers entered and shot the Bafana Bafana captain.
Five men are on trial at the Tall Court in Pretoria for the 2014 kill of Meyiwa.
Pretorius has been called to affirm after it was affirmed by one of the protection directs that Twala is the affirmed shooter who too harmed himself and went to a restorative office after the shooting.
Pretorius says Twala’s vehicle was positioned at the wrongdoing scene and moved to Kelly Khumalo’s address in Johannesburg within the early morning after the kill.
In other news
Tributes continue to pour in for the late former Finance Minister Tito Mboweni, as he is remembered for contributing to the country’s macroeconomic landscape. The late former Reserve Bank Governor has been praised for guiding South Africa’s economy through the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mboweni passed away on Saturday in a Johannesburg hospital, following a short illness.
The late former finance minister is being praised for having contributed immensely to the country’s economic policy direction post apartheid. Mboweni served as labour minister before he became the first black central bank governor and later finance minister.
“He shaped the post-apartheid economic policy before he even joined government. He was instrumental in setting up economic policy (in) the post-apartheid government including championing the independence of the central bank, even before the constitution was written. Tito had a beautiful policy brain, and that beautiful policy brain could be felt across various aspects of economic policy, from labour to trade and industry, to finance, to central banking and his departure would leave a big vacuum in terms of economic policy discourse in South Africa,” says Lesetja Kganyago, Reserve Bank Governor.
His former colleague at the National Treasury Ismail Momoniat says Mboweni became finance minister at a difficult time, when he had to clean up the corruption that was entrenched after state capture.
“Our SOEs were not working. They were, in fact, a huge drain on the fiscus, and that was impacting on the budget our debt, to GDP and our deficits which were very large as a result and what he did was to identify the need for us to grow the economy and to make structural reforms. So, what he did was talk about the problem, what he called the hippopotamus, that the hippopotamus mouth was opening wider and wider. At the top, your expenditure was going up and at the bottom revenue was going down. We are having huge deficits and what that meant for us as a country becoming more and more indebted to the point where it was not sustainable,” says Momoniat.
Mboweni’s former lecturer remembers him as one of the finest brains that was behind many economic policies in South Africa and the globe.
“I remember in particular during the 2008/2009 global financial crisis, Tito was one of the global experts that was asked by the IMF to review what happened in the United States with what were off balance sheet unsecured loans and transactions and they ultimately recommended the need for global banks including the biggest banks in the west to undergo stress tests to make sure that they have enough liquidity, they have minimum reserves and they can withstand any stress that comes,” says Sehoai Santho, Former Professor: National University of Lesotho.
Mboweni also served on a number of corporate boards when he retired from government. Mboweni’s funeral will be held on Saturday the 19th of October in Tzaneen, his hometown.