Police are preparing to make more arrests, possibly in prison, for being involved in the massacre which claimed 18 lives at Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape.
Police minister Senzo Mchunu and national police commissioner Gen Fannie Masemola provided an update on the investigation during a media briefing in parliament on Thursday.
Mchunu said police had received information that the mass murder had been planned behind bars. “Sometimes we get information, but there is always the need to translate that into concrete evidence,” he said.
“There is a story like that. Up until it gets confirmed and becomes a fact, we will then be able to say so … But it’s important to note this, and there is something we are doing about it.”
Mchunu told the police portfolio committee in parliament on Wednesday that the suspected mastermind had orchestrated the killings from inside prison.