Following the re-arrest of convicted murderer and rapist Thabo Bester and his extradition back to South Africa, all eyes are now on the country’s most secure prison, Kgosi Mampuru II, where Bester will be housed.
His accomplice and lover, Dr Nandipha Magudumana is en route to Bloemfontein to face charges of aiding and abetting an escape, murder, violation of bodies, and fraud, for her role in breaking Bester out of Mangaung Prison run by multinational security firm G4S.
Meanwhile Parliament is grilling G4S top brass and the Ministers of Police, Justice and Correctional Services over the matter. It’s a truth stranger than fiction, and IOL will give you a blow-by-blow account as the story unfolds.
START HERE: TIMELINE: Everything we know about the Thabo Bester and Dr Nandipha Madugumana saga, from May 2022 fiery ‘death’ to April arrest
LOOK: These are the charges Dr Nandipha Magudumana faces
Thabo Bester's partner and accomplice, Dr Nandipha Magudmana, made a brief appearance at the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Thursday afternoon, where her case was postponed until April 17.
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Remember Ananias Mathe, Bongani Moyo? Can Pretoria’s C-Max keep Thabo Bester behind bars?
As South Africans woke up on Thursday morning to digest the news of the highly-anticipated landing of fugitives Thabo Bester and Dr Nandipha Magudumana from Tanzania, it soon emerged that Bester had been confined to the fortified Kgosi Mampuru II correctional centre, also referred to as C-Max in Pretoria.
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Houdinis of SA: Escapes from correctional facilities and police holding cells in the past 12 months
As the nation continues to sit at the edge of their seats as shocking details are revealed of Thabo Bester’s Hollywood-like prison break, the incident has raised concerns about prisoners escaping.
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Where is Thabo Bester now?
The South African government has confirmed that Thabo Bester is in custody at the Kgosi Mampuru II Central Maximum correctional facility in Salvokop in Pretoria.
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UPDATE: Facebook rapist Thabo Bester will not escape Kgosi Mampuru C-Max, says Correctional Services commissioner
How Dr Nandipha Magudumana’s claim of three bodies raised alarm bells
Judge Edwin Cameron has singled out two police officers in Bloemfontein who smelt a rat when Dr Nandipha Maguduma started collecting bodies and claiming them.
This triggered them to start acting against Magudumana to stop her actions and oppose her application in the North Gauteng High Court to claim the body of a person put in a cell as that of Thabo Bester.
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Judge inspecting prisons says Lamola was told of Bester escape in October
The Inspecting Judge of Prisons, Edwin Cameron has revealed that Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola was told of Thabo Bester’s apparent escape as early as last October.
Cameron told Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services that he had thought that Lamola and his officials were going to try to get investigations going as swiftly as possible.
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G4S explains why it insisted Thabo Bester was dead in his cell
Security company G4S has defended its insistence that the body found burnt in a single cell at Mangaung Correctional Centre was that of escaped prisoner Thabo Bester, despite post-mortem results indicating otherwise.
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It’s them! Bheki Cele says fingerprints prove Thabo Bester and Dr Nandipha Magudumana’s arrests
Forensics confirm that the two people arrested in Tanzania and brought back to South Africa in the early hours of this morning are Thabo Bester and Dr Nandipha Magudumana, says Police Minister Bheki Cele.
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LIVE FEED: Police, Correctional Services give update on Thabo Bester, Dr Nandipha Magudumana’s arrests
Ministers Bheki Cele and Ronald Lamola are giving an update following the arrests of fugitive Thabo Bester and his lover, Dr Nandipha Magudumana.
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PICS: Thabo Bester, Dr Nandipha Magudumana back in South Africa amid heavy security
A plane carrying the duo landed at Lanseria airport in Gauteng this morning, and the fugitives were quickly whisked away in separate vehicles.
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Suspect who tampered with CCTV in Thabo Bester escape arrested as police seize Nandipha Magudumana’s Porsche
The suspect is believed to be a former Integritron employee, the company that was contracted by G4S to maintain the CCTV cameras at the Mangaung Correctional Centre.
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Thabo Bester: 5 shocking revelations as MPs finally tackle G4S head-on over Facebook rapist escape
Senior officials from G4S appeared before Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services on Wednesday, where they met fiery MPs who wanted to get answers about how Thabo Bester escaped from the facility in May last year.
There were shocking revelations revealed and many unanswered questions as MPs tour into the delegation from G4S with pointed questions regarding the events which transpired before the convicted murderer and rapist escaped.