The salon owner Nomaxabiso Xhotyeni tells Sunday Times that she remembers the day Thabo Bester walked into her Table View hair salon in Cape Town with five young women, in April 2011, pretending to be “Thomas K Bester, CEO of TV channel MTV Base”. Nomaxabiso Xhotyeni adds that meeting FacebookContinue Reading
The Bloemfontein Magistrates’ Court on Monday approved R10,000 bail for Zolile Sekeleni, the father of Nandipha Madugumana. Yet until their formal bail applications are heard on May 3 and 4, Madugumana, Senohe Matsoara, and Teboho Lipholo will stay in detention. Sekeleni is charged with helping Thabo Bester, a convicted rapistContinue Reading
Thabo Bester and Dr. Nandipha, who had previously been detained in Tanzania, have finally been returned to South Africa. On Wednesday, Members of Parliament (MPs) grilled global security firm G4S regarding the escape of murderer and rapist Thabo Bester. According to Groundup, Nandipha Magudumana, who is facing charges of murder and aiding Thabo Bester’s escape, used Bester’s alias to book accommodation in Bloemfontein and Ballito in the weeks leadingContinue Reading
Information just reaching kwaralefro is that Thabo Bester’s fingerprints were not found at Home Affairs. Thabo Bester and Dr. Nandipha, who had previously been detained in Tanzania, have finally been returned to South Africa. On Wednesday, Members of Parliament (MPs) grilled global security firm G4S regarding the escape of murderer and rapist Thabo Bester. The Mangaung Correctional Center (MCC), from which Bester escaped in May 2022, is run and partially owned by G4S. Read Also: Photos: Thabo Bester requests that his food be deliver by his legalContinue Reading
On April 7, eleven months after his escape, Bester and his friend Nandipha Magudumana were apprehended in Tanzania. Yet, it seems that the hunt for him only began on March 24 after GroundUp learned of Bester’s escape. Convicted murderer and rapist Thabo Bester made an appearance in the Bloemfontein Magistrates’Continue Reading
Thabo Bester and Dr nandipha were earlier arrested in Tanzania but has now been brought back to South Africa. On Wednesday, Members of Parliament (MPs) grilled global security firm G4S regarding the escape of murderer and rapist Thabo Bester. The Mangaung Correctional Center (MCC), from which Bester escaped in May 2022, is run and partially owned by G4S. Representatives of the corporation asserted that they had properly complied with the law enforcement. Yet, Legislators charged G4S with failing the South African people and refusing to accept responsibility.Continue Reading
Thabo Bester’s partner Nandipha Magudumana’s father Zolile Sekeleni and a former prison warder named Senohe Matsoara appeared in court on Tuesday on accusations related to Bester’s escape from the Mangaung Correctional Center in May 2022. Bester staged his own demise in a fire and broke out of the G4S-run MangaungContinue Reading
The source said that Tanzanian officials were unable to confirm that the pair who was detained was Bester and Magudumana based on the travel documentation the duo was carrying. Thabo Bester and Dr. Nandipha Magudumana were detained in Tanzania on Friday night, according to a press conference that was hastilyContinue Reading
According to the source, based on the travel documents that the couple was traveling with, Tanzanian authorities were unable to corroborate that the couple who was seized was Bester and Magudumana. Thabo Bester and Dr. Nandipha Magudumana were detained in Tanzania on Friday night, according to a press conference thatContinue Reading