Thabo Bester is celebrating his thirty ninth birthday on Friday, the thirteenth, an unfortunate date on the calendar. Like he did final yr, the convicted rapist, assassin, and fraudster is being saved in confinement on the Kgosi Mampuru jail.
Only a few years in the past, Thabo fooled a lot of Mzansi together with his fraudulent enterprise schemes and numerous aliases. He even made a “visitor look” at a star-studded celebration, the place the group sang him glad birthday!
He would later escape of jail to go on the run, “Bonnie and Clyde” type, together with his rumoured girlfriend, Dr Nandipha Magudumana.
The previous couple and 7 others are going through a slew of costs in a trial set to start subsequent month.
THABO BESTER’S BIRTHDAY VIDEO – REMEMBER THIS?
Thabo Bester’s brazen legal spree has concerned him utilizing a number of faux identities and fronting quite a few fraudulent companies.
In 2018, Bester – as soon as dubbed the “Fb Rapist” – pulled a quick one on many South Africans, together with celebrities, in an occasion that coincidentally happened on his birthday.
With the assistance of an alleged confederate, Bester registered an occasion and manufacturing firm known as twenty first Century Media. On the time, Bester was imprisoned in Magaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein after being convicted of rape and homicide in 2012.
Bester – allegedly utilizing the alias Tom Motsepe – advised the general public that he was primarily based in New York. He additionally claimed that he was associated to SA billionaire Patrice Motsepe.
The corporate held a grand launch celebration on the Hilton Lodge in Sandton on 13 June 2018 – Bester’s actual birthday – attended by celebs like Amanda du Pont and Yvonne Chaka Chaka. Main girls Nomzamo Mbatha and Thabile Ngwato have been MCs of the glamorous black-tie occasion.
In a video clip that has since gone viral, Nomzamo and Thabile sing “Completely happy Birthday” to “Tom,” who’s seen laughing through a video hyperlink.
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TRIAL: WHEN AND WHERE DOES IT TAKE PLACE?
Quick ahead to the current, Thabo Bester, Nandipha Magudumana, and 7 others are going through costs referring to a wild legal spree, which incorporates orchestrating a jail escape, working fraudulent companies, and violating a number of our bodies.
Their trial is anticipated to happen on 21 July on the Bloemfontein Excessive Court docket.
Nevertheless, ongoing authorized proceedings, comparable to Magudumana’s bid to the Constitutional Court docket to have her arrest and deportation declared illegal, may presumably delay the trial once more.
In 2022, Thabo Bester faked his loss of life and escaped jail with the assistance of jail officers and his alleged girlfriend, Nandipha Magudumana.
Bester took refuge in Magudumana’s Hyde Park house, the place he managed to fly below the radar. Just a few weeks later, he was photographed purchasing in a Woolworths retailer in Sandton. The picture would solely make headlines months later when his mysterious disappearance was lastly investigated.
In 2023, the couple have been arrested after they fled the nation to Tanzania.
BEHIND BARS WITH NO CHANCE OF ESCAPE
Thabo Bester is at the moment below lock and key on the Kgosi Mampuru jail in Pretoria.
Bester is being saved on the C-Max jail – a most safety division – which is able to afford him the next…
24-hour surveillance
Round the clock contact with “chosen excessive commerce correctional officers.”
Assurance that he will be unable to hurt himself or others
Bester has beforehand been escorted to the jail in a police Nyala – a bullet-proof automobile of most safety.
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