FRIDAY BRIEFING | Escape from Mangaung
In 2006, Ananias Mathe, the man dubbed Houdini, supposedly rubbed Vaseline all over his body, before slipping through a small window of his cell of the C-max prison at the Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Facility in Pretoria and escaping. The serial rapist, robber and murderer paid an R80 000 bribe to warders for his freedom, according to media reports. It wasn't the first time either.
In an elaborate scheme, which has revealed just how dysfunctional our state system is, Bester escaped from another high security facility, Mangaung Correctional Centre in the Free State, on 3 May 2022. Despite having this information, efforts to track down Bester and his accomplice Dr Mandipha Magudumana only got under way after GroundUp reported on the matter in March of this year. Bester was so brazen after the escape, he lived the high life in a street not far from where President Cyril Ramaphosa lives in a leafy Johannesburg suburb.
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