TSHILWAVHUSIKU – The police at Tshilwavhusiku have opened an inquest docket following the death of a well-known school principal, Mr Ramudzuli Philip Buasi (58), of Haravele village.

It follows an incident at Ha-Ravele Village on Tuesday morning at about 04:00. According to the spokesperson of the police at Tshilwavhusiku, Const Thilivhali Maloa, it is alleged that he woke shortly before the incident and told his wife that he was going to the toilet. The wife remained in the bedroom.

Realizing that Mr Buasi was not coming back, his wife decided to follow him. The statement indicates that the woman was shocked to see her husband's dead body hanging from the rafters of the kitchen. She told the police that the motive was unknown to her as there were no differences between them prior to the incident. Mr Buasi was the principal of the Ramantsha Primary School.

In another incident, the police have arrested a 26-year-old man of Madabani Village and charged him with the negligent use of a fire-arm on Monday. The police received information that two schoolboys were playing with a fire-arm at a local school on the day of the incident.

They proceeded to the school where they arrested one of them. The other boy was already gone when the police arrived at the school. The boy told the police that the fire-arm belonged to his friend, who had already gone home. The police then proceeded to the other boy's kraal.

The boy was arrested at his home and told the police that the fire-arm which they normally played with, belonged to a certain man who worked at a hardware store in Makhado, Eltivillas. The fire-arm owner was traced at his workplace and was arrested and charged with the negligent use of a fire-arm, after it was realised that it was licensed.

He was still to appear in court at the time of going to press.