Thabo Bester, who was on the run for quite sometime and was reportedly trailed by South African Crime Intelligence agents to Tanzania in April 2023. Dr Nandipha Magudumana, Thabo Bester, and a supposedly helping Mozambican national were all detained in Arusha, they were allegedly travelling to Kenya when they were detained on a Friday night and were both taken into custody.
The Thabo Bester saga was set to start at 10:00 today, Tuesday 20 June 2023 in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court but there was a slight delay due to power outrage. Dr Nandipha Magudumana, arrived early in court and was seen chatting and laughing with her father, Zolile Sekeleni who is also one of the accused in this saga.
The ninth suspect in Thabo Bester escape case is a 31-year-old man who asked the court for postponement in order for him to contact his family regarding his legal representation.
Advocate Tsoeunyane Pela has requested for an application for recusal, he said there will be three more arrests in the case and more investigations must be done. The Bester escape case is remanded until 8 August for further investigations.
Dr Nandipha Magudumana started dating Thabo Bester after she got divorced with her ex-husband, Magudumana is accused of major offences: assisting and abetting escape, murder in light of the several victims discovered, body violation, and fraud according to Ronald Lamola, minister of justices and correctional services.
This is where it all started: Bester was first found guilty of raping and killing his girlfriend Nomfundo Tyhulu back in 2012, a year earlier he was convicted of raping and robbing other women, he was charged with rape and murder, the murder charges when then dropped.
According to The South African, the burnt body that was found in Thabo Bester’s cell at Mangaung Correctional Centre in May 2022 belonged to Katlego Bereng, according to DNA testing.
On Saturday, April 22, Batho Mpho, Katlego Bereng’s father, who was named as Batho Mpho, disclosed on Twitter under the handle @BathoChief that he is the father of the guy who Thabo Bester is said to have burnt.
The mother of the deceased son, called Batho Mpholo to inform him that their missing son’s burnt remains had been positively identified by DNA tests.
According to reports, Thabo Bester’s death in cell 35 at Mangaung Prison in May 2022 was staged using Katlego Bereng’s body, which was then burnt.
The body discovered in the cell was not Bester’s, according to a March 2023 investigation by GroundUp.
Brigadier Athlenda Mathe, a spokesman for the national police, told News24 that the family had been informed once the corpse was identified.
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