News24 reports that a CCTV technician is expected to appear in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on Thursday in connection with convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester's escape last year from the Mangaung Correctional Centre.
The 44-year-old man, who was arrested on Tuesday, was an employee contracted to a company that installs and maintains cameras at the prison. He faces charges of aiding and abetting a convicted prisoner to escape from lawful custody, defeating the ends of justice, and violation of a dead body. It had been believed that Bester died in his cell in May last year. However, last month authorities conceded Bester had escaped from prison on 3 May 2022 and it was revealed that the body found in the cell was not Bester's. Bester and his girlfriend, aesthetics doctor Nandipha Magudumana, were on the run from 22 March and were eventually tracked down and arrested in Tanzania on Friday night. On Tuesday, Magudumana's father, Zolile Sekeleni, and Senohe Matsoara, a former G4S staffer, appeared in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court in connection with the prison escape. Meanwhile, the Gauteng SAPS tracking team has seized a white Porsche Cayenne, believed to belong to Magudumana, in Lichtenburg, North West. The 28-year-old male driver was taken into police custody and is currently being questioned.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard compiled by Jenna Verster at News24
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