Thabo Bester, his partner Dr Nandipha Magudumana and seven other accused appear in the Bloemfontein magistrate's court.
The charges faced range from assisting a convicted criminal to escape from custody, to tampering with a corpse, fraud and defeating the ends of justice.
Bester escaped from the Mangaung Correctional Centre in May last year, in what is believed to have been an aided escape. Among the accused are former employees of G4S who are alleged to have assisted in the escape plot that involved a staged suicide.
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