The families of the ''Waterkloof Four'' have refused to comment on a Pretoria High Court order instructing two of the men to return to jail.
Reinach Tiedt and Gert van Schalkwyk must report to Zonderwater Prison by Monday.
Tiedt's father, Chris Tiedt, yesterday declined to comment on the dismissal of his son's application to stay out of prison and remain under house arrest pending an appeal. "I have got no comment at all ... we do not want to talk about this at all please," he said.
The duo's advocate, Jaap Cilliers, argued that it would "ruin" their lives if they had to go back to jail when there was a chance that an appeal might eventually succeed.
Judges Hans Fabricius, Ephraim Makgoba and Wendy Hughes denied an application by Tiedt and Van Schalkwyk for leave to appeal against an earlier ruling that they return to Zonderwater Prison.
The judges granted an order to Correctional Services that any further applications for leave to appeal not suspend the previous order.
The two, along with Christoff Becker and Frikkie du Preez, were sentenced in January 2005 to 12 years' imprisonment for murdering a man in a Pretoria park in 2001.
They began serving their sentences in August 2008 after an appeal failed. A magistrate converted Tiedt and Van Schalkwyk's sentences to correctional supervision in December 2011 after an application by the Parole Board. Correctional Services appealed the decision and the Pretoria High Court ruled in June that the two must return to jail.
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