The Thabo Bester Story - Marecia Damons and Daniel STEYN

The Thabo Bester Story - Marecia Damons and Daniel STEYN

The Facebook Rapist, the Celebrity Doctor and the Escape from Cell 35

It is the quintessentail crime story:

murder, rape, cons, an impossible love affair, a prison break, a burnt body, a coffin with meat, a flashy lifestyle, and then a hasty escape in a black SUV through three countries. 

The sensational escape of murderer and rapist Thabo Bester, assisted by his lover , society doctor Nandipha Magudumana, shocked South Africa and set social media alight. In The Thabo Bester Story, Marceia Damons and Daniel Steyn, the award-winning GroundUp journalists who expose the couple's scams and caught the goverment sleeping at the wheel while Bester Magudumana lived the high life in Sandton, go behind the headlines.

Here we tell the full story, from Bester and Magudumana"s early lives, their unlikely love affair and the tragedy surrounding their many victums, to a web of complicity in Soiuth africa's broken prison system.

Incredible, but true.