The Thabo Bester Story: Escape from Cell 35

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News of the sensational escape of convicted murder and rapist Thabo Bester, assisted by his lover, celebrity doctor Nandipha Magudumana, shocked South Africa. In The Thabo Bester Story: Escape from Cell 35, Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn, the GroundUp journalists who exposed the scam, tell the full story. In November 2022, they received a tip-off that Bester had escaped from the maximum-security prison in Manguang by faking his death, and that the charred body found in Cell 35 was not his. GroundUp requested the prison’s visitors reports and found the autopsy report, which stated that the deceased had been dead before the fire broke out … Utterly compelling.