In a press convention in Cape Town on Thursday, the Ministers of Justice and Police confirmed that assassin and rapist Thabo Bester and his confederate Nandipha Magudumana have been efficiently introduced again to South Africa after being arrested in Tanzania on the weekend.
Bester escaped from Mangaung Correctional Centre in May 2022. Several different individuals have up to now been arrested in relation to his escape. These embody an official who was on obligation the day of the escape, Senohe Matsoara, and Magudumana’s father, Zolile Sekeleni, and an Integritron CCTV technician, Tebogo Lipholo.
Police Minister Bheki Cele mentioned that Magudumana cooperated with authorities in Tanzania, however Bester was not cooperative. Bester is at the moment held at Kgosi Mampuru jail, a C-Max jail in Pretoria, and Magudumana is anticipated to look within the Bloemfontein Magistrates Court on Thursday. Bester is underneath 24/7 surveillance.
Magudumana will likely be charged with aiding and abetting escape, homicide, the violation of our bodies, and fraud. Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola mentioned that Magudumana had in some unspecified time in the future been in possession of a number of useless our bodies.
While Bester was in jail, Magudumana visited him regularly. After Bester faked his loss of life in a jail cell hearth, Magudumana collected the physique present in Bester’s cell and claimed Bester’s possessions from the jail.
Minister of Justice Ronald Lamola thanked the federal government of Tanzania for its “unequivocal collaboration” within the means of arresting and deporting Bester and Magudumana. A Mozambican nationwide who was arrested alongside Bester and Magudumana, didn’t return to South Africa.
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