It’s been more than two years since Thabo Zacharia Muyambo and Johannes Chauke brazenly escaped from Tshwane’s Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre in Gauteng in December 2020.
At the time, Muyambo was serving 21 years for various crimes, including rape and kidnapping, while Chauke had a 20-year sentence for housebreaking crimes. These are violent criminals who are still roaming the streets due to the ineptitude of the country’s Correctional Services facilities.
The images that emerged from their respective cells following their daring escape show a mini- construction site with bricks and other rubble strewn across the floors, and revealed that the escapees colluded to flee Kgosi Mampuru.
It is no surprise, then, that the alleged fugitive popularly known as Thabo Bester could have waltzed in and out the country’s prisons without…
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Sunday Independent (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2023-04-09