Cape Town — A rapist and murderer who escaped after faking his death in a South African prison cell, then spent more than 10 months at liberty, has been arrested in Tanzania, two South African cabinet ministers reported on Saturday. South Africa's Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, and the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola, said they are sending a team to Tanzania on Sunday to secure the return of those arrested to South Africa. Lamola told the news conference that since Bester is an escaped criminal, he needed simply to be deported back to South Africa. Bester gained notoriety in South Africa as "the Facebook rapist" because he lured women on social media, then raped them. The ministers announced on Saturday that DNA analysis of the body found in the cell was not that of Bester."

Source: The North Africa Journal April 08, 2023 21:07 UTC