Area co-ordinator at St Albans Maximum Prison, Suzette Neethling has testified in the Port Elizabeth High Court in a civil lawsuit brought by 231 inmates.
The prisoners have brought a civil claim for damages against the Minister of Correctional Services, claiming they had been tortured during a mass assault over a 5 day period after a warder was killed in 2005.
During proceedings on Monday, Neethling identified a brown satchel containing instruments described as knives and weapons.
She told the court that these items were confiscated after the death of prison warder Babini Nqakula- who was stabbed by an inmate during July 2005.
Neethling said that the stabbing incident definitely raised anger in prison warders and employess feared for their lives.
She said that correctional employees were shocked and it raised a huge concern at the amount of weapons discovered within the centre.
Neethling added that after the murder incident stabbings actually increased at the prison and gangs were particularly active.
