[Date]
PEN1502
Assignment 4
Semester 2 2024 -
DUE 3 September
2024
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
, PEN1502 Assignment 4 Semester 2 2024 - DUE 3 September 2024
Thabo Bester escape case from Mangaung Correctional Centre. On May 3, 2022,
Bester escapes from Mangaung Correctional Centre with the help of G4S and
Integriton employees. G4S security supervisor Senohe Matsoara and Integriton’s
CCTV technician Tebogo James Lipholo are among those who allegedly assist
Bester escape. Also assisting Bester, is Magudumana, along with her father, Zolile
Sekeleni. Also in May last year, Magudumana claims the body of the man found in
Bester’s cell. Parliament heard how Magudumana had the body transported to a
mortuary in Soweto, before she was set to cremate it. It has now emerged that the
SAPS then PEN1502 Page 2 of 3 Due Date: 3 September 2024 confiscated the
body after they found that Magudumana had claimed another body in April,
claiming it was a relative, only for the body to be found floating in a river. Also in
May, Magudumana approached the North Gauteng High Court in a bid to seek
relief against the police, for her to be allowed to cremate the body. She had
claimed to be Bester’s customary wife, but it was found that she was still in a civil
union with Dr Mkhuseli Magudumana, per home affairs records at the time. Judge
Edwin Cameron, the head of the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services,
who also appeared in Parliament, said the police should have ensured
Magudumana was arrested for perjury solely based on the untruths she had
presented to court. Parliament also heard from top police officials that an affidavit
submitted by Magudumana in the court case had been signed by an officer who
had left the police force months earlier. Police officials confirmed to MPs that
Magudumana was never questioned, despite many unanswered questions. – June
2022 Bester and Magudumana are photographed at a Woolworths supermarket in
Sandton. This only emerged in March 2023 publicly in a GroundUp report. He is
PEN1502
Assignment 4
Semester 2 2024 -
DUE 3 September
2024
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
, PEN1502 Assignment 4 Semester 2 2024 - DUE 3 September 2024
Thabo Bester escape case from Mangaung Correctional Centre. On May 3, 2022,
Bester escapes from Mangaung Correctional Centre with the help of G4S and
Integriton employees. G4S security supervisor Senohe Matsoara and Integriton’s
CCTV technician Tebogo James Lipholo are among those who allegedly assist
Bester escape. Also assisting Bester, is Magudumana, along with her father, Zolile
Sekeleni. Also in May last year, Magudumana claims the body of the man found in
Bester’s cell. Parliament heard how Magudumana had the body transported to a
mortuary in Soweto, before she was set to cremate it. It has now emerged that the
SAPS then PEN1502 Page 2 of 3 Due Date: 3 September 2024 confiscated the
body after they found that Magudumana had claimed another body in April,
claiming it was a relative, only for the body to be found floating in a river. Also in
May, Magudumana approached the North Gauteng High Court in a bid to seek
relief against the police, for her to be allowed to cremate the body. She had
claimed to be Bester’s customary wife, but it was found that she was still in a civil
union with Dr Mkhuseli Magudumana, per home affairs records at the time. Judge
Edwin Cameron, the head of the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services,
who also appeared in Parliament, said the police should have ensured
Magudumana was arrested for perjury solely based on the untruths she had
presented to court. Parliament also heard from top police officials that an affidavit
submitted by Magudumana in the court case had been signed by an officer who
had left the police force months earlier. Police officials confirmed to MPs that
Magudumana was never questioned, despite many unanswered questions. – June
2022 Bester and Magudumana are photographed at a Woolworths supermarket in
Sandton. This only emerged in March 2023 publicly in a GroundUp report. He is
