LIVE BLOG | Day 2 of Zandi Khumalo's testimony in Senzo Meyiwa trial

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10:13 - Khumalo-Gumede resumes testimony explaining her location while hiding in the bathroom between the basin and the bathtub.

Khumalo-Gumede: After the shot, there was a bit of silence. I reached for the door handle to peep around the corner still in a squatting position." 

"As I was peeping like that, I saw Senzo coming from the kitchen...Senzo held his chest whilst bent forward and hid between the couch and the TV stand."

"While I was still in the bathroom, Kelly followed, then my mother and then the intruder with dreadlocks."

Kelly stood behind Senzo and my mother behind. 

The judge asks where the intruder was and Khumalo-Gumede states that her mother took a phone which was charging near the TV stand, then the intruder took the phone from her mother. The intruder elbowed Khumalo-Gumede's mother and she [mother] fell on the couch.

"During that time Kelly was was supporting Senzo with her knees>"

10:33 - After the intruder [1st suspect] took the phone, he turned around and walked towards the kitchen." Khumalo-Gumede says when she saw this she closed the bathroom door. 

Khumalo-Gumede states that she opened the bathroom door after an interval of silence and couldn't see the intruder. 

Khumalo-Gumede says she walked out the bathroom she was told that Meyiwa had been shot. 

When asked about her own observations, Khumalo-Gumede said she could see blood on Meyiwa's t-shirt and Meyiwa was having difficulty breathing. 

She says she then remembered that she hid her phone behind a cushion on the couch when the intruders earlier asked for cellphones and money.

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