Download PDFPrint ArticleSouth Africa has been enraptured by the story of Thabo Bester, a person who, in 2012, was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of rape and murder. Bester murdered his girlfriend and lured his female victims on Facebook by posing as a world model scout. Until May 2022, he resided in a cell in Mangaung Prison, a privately-run maximum security prison within the Free State province that's the second largest of its kind on this planet, when he apparently perished in a fireplace. That's, until earlier this yr when news site GroundUp broke the story that Bester was in actual fact alive, and had orchestrated an intricate escape.
That wasn’t all. Two highlights of the story include how Bester, along with...
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