Thabo Bester's escape and flight from South Africa exposed a stunning level of official incompetence.
BBC News, Johannesburg
Bester, known locally as the "Facebook rapist" for using the site to lure his victims, had pretended to be an agent who was going to help her find a job in television."The escape left me triggered and traumatised.He was never convicted of her rape, but in 2011 Bester was found guilty of raping and robbing two women.
After the conviction many in South Africa forgot about him, until the news that the man who once preyed on desperate women, enticing them with promises of job opportunities, was back living among the free."He's gotten worse in terms of his criminal behaviours," Dr Labuschagne said. "Even when it was believed it was Bester who died in that fire, we covered it because we believed it was an issue of public interest," GroundUp editor Nathan Geffen told the BBC.
But it would be months before officials admitted not only that the corpse was not Bester's but also that they had no idea where this dangerous man was. "Quite frankly, what's happened is depraved and South Africans should be extremely concerned that Thabo Bester managed to get out in the way that he did, and that G4S ran the prisons so incompetently that this was allowed to happen," said Mr Geffen.Other local newspapers followed GroundUp's lead and Bester and his partner went on the run.
Mr Lamola has apologised to Bester's victims, saying that more information should have been shared at the time. It may have been a mix of public pressure and relentless media coverage on the story that pushed officials to finally act with haste. The couple were arrested in the Tanzanian city of Arusha late on 7 April, in possession of multiple passports with fake identities, the authorities said.
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