LAST month the public was astonished to learn that Facebook rapist Thabo Bester, serving a life sentence for murder and rapes, was still alive and living it up in luxury with his lover Dr Nandipha Magudumana.
In May last year, it was announced that Bester had died in a cell fire in the Mangaung Correctional Services facility. After an autopsy revealed that the body was not that of Bester and that the victim had died of a head injury, a report by the Inspecting Judge of Correctional Services was handed to the Minister of Justice in October.
This information was known to police management and through them to the minister after the autopsy. It is only because of the notoriety and celebrity statuses of the couple that the details of…
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Sunday Independent (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2023-04-23