Senzo Meyiwa's childhood friend was inconsolable as he told reporters about his friend's last moments on earth.

A very distraught old time KZN friend of  Bafana’s captain Senzo Meyiwa struggled to speak as he arrived back in the house where the tragic shooting took place.

Speaking in Zulu, Meyiwa’s friend, name unkown, told the EWN reporter that the goalkeeper had sent him money to come visit him in Johannesburg.

At a loss for words, he said that he had just arrived yesterday to visit his best friend only to have him die in his arms.

“We are both from section K in Umlazi, he is my friend. I had just arrived, he sent me money through my phone for me to come through for a visit,” Eish (he cries)

“I don’t know how to explain what happened, what do I say, I’m hurting and I don’t know what to do.  My friend died in my arms,” he said.

The friend was one of the 7 people said to have been present in the house during the shooting incident.

Meyiwa died in hospital after being shot during at his girlfriend singer Kelly Khumalo's home in Vosloorus on Sunday night.

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