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Thabo Bester (born 13 June 1986) [4] is a South African convicted rapist and murderer who escaped from the Mangaung Correctional Centre in South Africa after faking his death in a fire in his prison cell in May 2022. [5][6] He was on the run for almost a year before being caught in Arusha, Tanzania on 8 April 2023. [7]
Tracking Thabo Bester is a South African true crime mini television documentary series based on the story of the dramatic prison escape of murderer and rapist Thabo Bester and his alleged accomplice girlfriend, "celebrity" medical doctor Nandipha Magudumana. It was directed by Nikki Comninos, [1] and produced by IdeaCandy, [2] it premiered on ...
On May 3, 2022, G4S Correction Services (SA) notified the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) and the SA Police Service (SAPS) of a fire at a Mangaung Correctional Centre (MCC) and the death of Thabo Bester, [46] a serial rapist and murderer. G4S claimed that the prisoner had set himself on fire in his cell and the matter was reported as ...
Bester was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012. A South African convicted murderer who faked his death to escape from prison has been arrested in Tanzania following a two-week manhunt, police said.
In May 2022, convicted murderer and rapist Thabo Bester escaped from the Mangaung Prison in South Africa. [ 71 ] In November 2022, Dritan Rexhepi who has a history of escapes, broke out of a Prison in Ecuador and was apprehended by Turkish Law Enforcement in November 2023.
After his release from prison, Zuma re-established ANC underground structures in Natal. [22] He left South Africa in 1975 and was initially based in Swaziland where he met Thabo Mbeki. In Mozambique, he dealt with the arrival of thousands of exiles seeking military training in the wake of the 1976 Soweto uprising.
Tom Morello, member of Rage Against the Machine, said in response "The fact that music I helped create was used in crimes against humanity sickens me" and called for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison. [15] David Gray, whose song "Babylon" was used during interrogations, was shocked by the lack of public outcry and said "We are thinking ...
The song is used to introduce the play, a story about the occurrences in a prison (in real life Mountjoy Prison where Behan had once been lodged) the day a convict is set to be executed. The triangle in the title refers to the large metal triangle which was beaten daily in Mountjoy Prison to waken the inmates ("The Auld Triangle goes Jingle ...