{"id":268435,"date":"2023-07-17T23:12:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T22:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=268435"},"modified":"2023-07-17T23:12:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T22:12:59","slug":"thabo-bester-biography-wife-and-net-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/thabo-bester-biography-wife-and-net-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"Thabo Bester Biography, Wife and Net Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"
Thabo Bester is a 37-year-old South African convicted criminal currently facing murder and rape charges. He claims a net worth of R3 billion and does not have a wife.<\/strong><\/p>\n Bester’s case garnered a great deal of attention from the general public in March 2023 when local investigative media exposed how he had escaped from jail with the aid of his girlfriend and numerous other persons inside and outside the prison. His case remains one of the biggest scandals in South African prison history.<\/p>\n Thabo Bester was born on June 13, 1986, in Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa. He is 37 years old. He was born to Meisie Maria Bester and her husband and is the oldest of four children.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There is no information about his family background, education, upbringing, and early life. Thabo became a person of interest in May 2022 when news broke that he escaped from prison after faking his death in an arson.<\/p>\n Thabo Bester began his criminal activities on Facebook, where he lured so many models with fake modeling jobs. He used so many aliases through his dubious operations on the platform. He went to jail for the first at the age of 19 for fraud. He would break parole and as if that is not enough, he had forceful carnal knowledge with two models. After that, he went ahead to kill his girlfriend Nomfundo Tiyhulu for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n When arraigned in court in 2011, Bester pleaded guilty to the rapes. He was charged with murder the following year, to which he also pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at Mangaung Correctional Centre in 2012 and was dubbed a “Facebook rapist”.<\/p>\n The facility he was detained was a British-owned private maximum security prison run by the multinational security company, G4S. On May 3rd, 2023, Thabo Bester escaped from the facility with the help of some G4S officials, his girlfriend, her father (Zokile Sekeleni), and the camera technician, James Lipholo.<\/p>\n On the same day, he was declared dead after a dead body burned beyond recognition was found in his cell room. The initial report was that he was the one who was found lifeless in his cell room.<\/p>\n Following his escape, Bester and his girlfriend quickly moved in at one of the properties they leased in Coleraine Park in Johannesburg, after which his girlfriend moved her parents out of one of their properties in Hyde Park to Coleraine Park.<\/p>\n Bester and Magudumana moved into the secluded Hyde Park mansion with high walls. The worth of the property is valued at R12 million and they rented it for over R40 000 per month.<\/p>\n Not long after, Thabo’s celebrity girlfriend approached the appropriate authority asking for the body that was burned in Bester’s cell to be released to her, claiming she was the man’s customary wife.<\/p>\n The body was subsequently released to Magudumana and she transported it to a mortuary in Soweto, waiting to cremate it. In the mix of things, the police confiscated the body after they discovered that a body Magudumana claimed a month earlier was found floating on a river. She claimed the person was a relative.<\/p>\n After several failed attempts to talk the police into releasing the body, Bester’s girlfriend approached the North Gauteng High Court to be allowed to cremate the body. At this point, Bester was invited for a DNA test.<\/p>\n At first, she was uncooperative and reluctant to provide information on the case. There was no match between her and the corpse in the long run which made the police wonder if they took in the right woman.<\/p>\n Further investigation then found that the corpse (initially thought to be Bester) did not die from smoke inhalation but rather from a blunt force trauma on his head.<\/p>\n The South African police and other relevant authorities were alerted immediately by Judge Cameron after it became clear that Thabo did not die in the arson in his cell room. He was told to keep the information private but Cameron ended up sharing part of the information with the local investigative outlet, Groundup.<\/p>\n Following the revelation, GS4 dismissed its security supervisor Senohe Matsoara as he could not give clear explanations of some of his behaviors on the day Bester fled from his cell.<\/p>\n On sensing trouble, Thabo Bester and Nandipha Magudumana hurriedly moved from their mansion in Hyde Park home to the Coleraine Park property in January 2023.<\/p>\n Two months later, investigative outlet Groundup published a report on Bester, revealing that he had escaped from prison. Also attached to the publication was a photograph of Bester shopping at a Woolworths supermarket in Sandton sometime in 2022.<\/p>\n The photograph, which was secretly taken by a shopper, captured the rapist sporting long hair and sunglasses. In the wake of the viral report, the lovers hurriedly fled the country through the Beitbridge border. In the same month, the police and Department of Correctional Services (DCS) tracking teams followed the couple into Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n Bester and Nandipha entered Zambia, en route to Tanzania on the 18th of March 2023. Eight days later, the DCS eventually confirmed that Thabo is alive and that he truly escaped from his cell. A case of murder was subsequently opened over the dead body that was found in his prison cell.<\/p>\n The convicted murderer and his girlfriend were nabbed by the police in Tanzania on Friday 7th April 2023 along with their Mozambican accomplice named Zakaria Alberto. The trio had so many items in possession, including multiple unstamped passports, two of which belonged to one Dr Pashy, real name Mmereka Ntshani.<\/p>\nSummary of Thabo Bester\u2019s Biography
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Who Is Thabo Bester?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Thabo Bester Story<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Thabo Bester’s Well-Coordinated and Organized Escape<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Magudumana’s Attempt to Cremate the Burned Body was Foiled by the Police<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Bester and his Celebrity Girlfriend Flee their Hyde Park Mansion<\/strong><\/h3>\n
The Fugitive Couple was Arrested on April 7, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n