Free State Premier, Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae has described the day the bodies of the three constables were retrieved from the Hennops River in Gauteng , and the night of the announcement by the National police commissioner Fannie Masemola as agonizing.
An emotional Mathae says the devastation was felt in the province.
She says that night became a reality that was never expected.
Mathae however, has thanked the families of the three constables, Keamogetswe Buys, Cebekhulu Linda and Boipelo Senoge for opening their homes and worked with the provincial government.
Mathae says the pain the families are going through is indescribable but they will overcome it with time.