Family still in the dark over gay principal’s murder

ALMOST five years after the first black principal of Sandown High School in Joburg was found naked and dead in Soweto there are still no answers.

Principal Pule Kgaratsi was found dead in his Audi TT in White City in 2017. He had four bullet wounds and was found with his pants down.

He was appointed principal at Sandown High in 2015 and had received a number of awards as an educator.

Kgaratsi’s family said they were struggling to get closure because the police had not yet solved Pule’s murder case.

A private investigator had been hired by the family to try and get to the bottom of the murder.

It was suspected that Kgaratsi could have been killed in a gay love triangle gone wrong.

Queen Molefe, Kgaratsi’s sister, said Soweto police were not giving the matter the needed attention because he was “gay”.

“We have been going to Moroka police station all these years. We even hired a private investigator who is also not getting assisted by the police to finish his work,” Molefe said.

She said the police had not yet interviewed a witness who was one of the last people to see her brother alive. She also accused them of bad police work as some items his brother had on him, such as cellphones and a yellow jacket, have gone missing.

“There are so many things that were done wrong with the case. I have even written a letter to the Gauteng provincial police commissioner’s office.”

The family said they were also hurt by the fact that a man claiming to be married to Kgaratsi had even managed to claim all his assets, including his pension which was around R3 million.

Gauteng police spokesperson Mavela Masondo said police were aware of the matter. He said there were leads that police were following but would not divulge them now.

He said there was no evidence linking Kgaratsi’s partner to the murder.