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00:13The full first names?
00:16Tabo.
00:16And people call you Tabo, your friends, etc.
00:19Tom and Tabo, yeah.
00:22I see in the media they keep on referring to you as a Facebook rapist.
00:26The so-called Facebook serial rapist, Tabo Bester,
00:30lured young women with the promise of modelling contracts
00:32and befriended them on his Facebook page.
00:35Bester is believed to be linked to about 20 cases of rape and robbery.
00:39That escalated to a full-blown murder when he stabbed a young model to death.
00:44This is a dangerous man.
00:46I did not feel like an only human being.
00:49He's a psychopath.
00:51Bester was sentenced to life imprisonment for multiple rapes and murder.
00:56And yet while he was still in prison, there were women in particular coming to see him.
01:04And one of the women was a celebrity doctor, Nandipa Magudumana.
01:08How is it that a doctor could fall for a convicted murderer?
01:12Love, it can make you do unbelievable things.
01:16It was clear that she was smitten by him.
01:18South Africa hasn't really seen a Bonnie and Clyde duo.
01:22And then I realised this thing is unravelling.
01:25Tabo Bester was in charge and in control.
01:29This monster.
01:30He is this evil, his wife.
01:32What actually transpired between the two of them?
01:35Perhaps she lured him.
01:36This is stupid, crazy, mad, greed.
01:41How was it possible for someone to pull this off?
01:45I can't imagine my daughter to do such things.
01:49Is she an accomplice?
01:51Is she a victim?
01:53Maybe she is a victim, but the story's gonna have to be fucking good.
01:57If they say, our love is criminal, no hiding, no subliminals.
02:10Hey, hey, hey.
02:13So fast, yes, I'm in.
02:19I'm going to go.
02:23So fast, yes, I'm in.
02:55Hey, I don't even know where to start.
03:05I'll try my best to cover as much as I can.
03:09Please don't give this to anyone.
03:12Because I don't want people coming after you.
03:16Oh, God, help me.
03:19You know, I don't know if I'm going to do this whole sentence in here.
03:23Or if they're going to one day kill me.
03:27Only God knows the true intentions of every human.
03:36But hey, if anything happens to me, at least I know you try to help me.
03:56The Department of Correctional Services announced that Tabo Besta, also known as the infamous Facebook rapist, had set himself alight
04:05in his cell and died.
04:14The Department of Correctional Services are investigating the death of Tabo Besta.
04:20How on earth could something like this happen?
04:24The Correctional Services will have to give account as to what transpired and what steps are to be taken in
04:29future.
04:30You know, how is it possible that an inmate in a maximum security prison was able to set himself alight?
04:37Have we started yet, Anthony?
04:42We get this report that Tabo Besta has been burned to death in his cell by suicide.
04:58Prisons are miserable places and they trigger terrible thoughts amongst those who are confined.
05:05So we have regular reports of self-terminations.
05:08This one was unique and it was weird.
05:14The first odd thing was that there'd never been a death by fire in a cell in Mangaung Max prison.
05:23It's a well-constructed prison.
05:26The cells are in clusters like in the American prisons and they modelled it on American supermax prisons.
05:33And then the second thing is that suicide by fire without a major propellant is very difficult.
05:45So how do you commit suicide in a locked cell at three in the morning?
05:51By putting yourself under your own mattress and setting light to the mattress.
05:57Very weird indeed.
06:05When I heard that he died in his cell, I was shocked.
06:10Because now it's somebody who you actually knew.
06:15In 2012, at the time of Tabo Besta's arrest, I was still a junior reporter.
06:21And I covered a lot of crime stories.
06:23So it wasn't strange to get a phone call from a prisoner.
06:29And then I received a phone call.
06:31You have a collect call from Tabo Besta.
06:34And he says, it's the Facebook rapist.
06:38And at the time, everybody knew who the Facebook rapist was.
06:42He got the name because of how he lured his victims.
06:47He would friend request them or message them on Facebook.
06:50And he would pretend to be a modelling agent, offer them a model contract.
06:55And he would rob and, in some places, he would rape the woman.
07:12So a month or so later, he was arrested in Jovo during an attempted hijacking.
07:17That's where he then pleaded guilty for the murder that he committed.
07:23And at the time when I spoke to him, he had already been sentenced to life plus 25 years.
07:30And then he says to me, no, you need to come and see me in prison.
07:33I want to speak to you face to face.
07:35I said, okay.
07:44It was raining.
07:46It was a great wet day.
07:52And I remember on our way there, we were nervous and excited because we were chasing after this exclusive.
08:00And then a few minutes later, out comes Besta.
08:05It was my first time also sitting across from a convicted murderer.
08:12And he says, hey, guys.
08:14And really, it was like, we were these long-lost friends who hadn't seen each other in a long time.
08:21There's nothing about him that's intimidating.
08:24So when he speaks, you almost feel like you're speaking to, you know, somebody who's a good person who made
08:32bad decisions.
08:33You almost forget who the man actually is.
08:37During one of our visits, the prison guards made a very interesting comment and said, oh, are you guys also
08:45fans coming to see Taubo?
08:47At that moment, we realized that there were people coming, women in particular, coming to see him.
08:58He knows how to catch his prey and he knows what to kind of, you know, how to play on
09:02feelings and emotion.
09:03To the point where you're thinking, how is it that you are this person in front of us, but to
09:09somebody else, you are nothing but a cold-blooded killer.
09:27Three days after the fire, a woman had come forward at the Free State Morgue to claim Taubo Besta's body.
09:39And she had identified herself as Dr. Nandipa Magadumana.
09:46Who is this doctor that has gone to claim Taubo Besta's body?
09:51I think it was one reporter that said, yeah, she's an influencer.
09:54She's so popular.
09:55If you do what you love, you will never have to work a day in your life is the saying
09:59which inspired a Dr. Nandipa Magadumana, founder of Optima Medical Aesthetics.
10:03What are the results going to be?
10:05Can I be honest with you?
10:06Yes.
10:07The results are instant.
10:08She was a cosmetic doctor that had a very large following on social media.
10:14I think we all go through challenges and the most important thing, to remain focused and committed and living with
10:22positivity.
10:23She had a multi-million rand company.
10:27So we make people beautiful.
10:29That's what we do.
10:30She appeared to be extremely successful in multiple business ventures.
10:35Today I'm at our wellness center and our construction site.
10:39But the strange thing was that she claimed she was Besta's customary law wife.
10:50And requested that the body be transferred to a morgue in Soweto, where she had planned to do the funeral.
11:01Why was it that this extremely successful doctor was involved with a rapist and a murderer?
11:16The news that Thabo Besta had died was widely reported.
11:20And at that stage, Macy Mabasso, Thabo Besta's mother, wanted to claim her son's body.
11:35The South African police service has confirmed the suicide of rapist and murderer Thabo Besta.
11:43Hi, when I'm here, I can't think nothing because I'm on the road, getting net up on the 21st hour,
11:50not to be left in the funeral, and I'm not going to message you.
11:55The police came here, and then they came and take the blood test.
12:00The police came here, and this is an incident that understand the way it's been quality natural.
12:07And the staff can't come to a hospital.
12:12But they do it now because there's some help in the hospital.
12:15The people who tell me they are the people who tell me they are the people who are the people
12:19who are the people who live in the lives?
12:22And they tell me that they are the people who live here and they say the people who live here,
12:28and they tell them all you will.
12:36She just told me she was staying with Tava she is married to Tava, and then me, I don't
12:42know, I was confused, confused, confused.
12:48Can you tell me then, your mom's first name, just that I have her first name?
12:52Maisie.
12:53But you lived most of your life with your grandmother.
13:02Okay.
13:03In a nutshell, if you could kind of describe your younger years.
13:09I fell in love with the entertainment industry, and I looked at these people, and I admired
13:16them, and I looked up at them, and I felt that I would love to live like them, drive
13:21the cars they drive, and I think that's where my problem started.
13:24Why?
13:29I couldn't separate reality and the actual facts.
13:34And that's probably why I'm sitting where I'm sitting right now.
13:39He's genuinely crazy.
13:42I don't know what specifically drew him to me.
13:47Everybody, please put your hands together for my guest tonight, Pearl Juicy!
13:58Back then, Facebook was a big thing.
14:02That is how Tava got a hold of me.
14:08It was some sort of a TV hosting gig.
14:12I got there, and then he got in the car.
14:17And then, after about 25 minutes of driving, he says, turn left here.
14:22And I realize it's a dead end.
14:26As I turn to look at him, he's already drawn the knife.
14:31My mind is racing.
14:32My adrenaline is pumping.
14:34I'd never felt so stupid.
14:38I think I asked him, you know, why are you doing this?
14:42Well, he starts a monologue about his life and how hard it has been.
14:48For me, as a young Christian woman, this was a huge opportunity to do the right thing.
14:53And I really believed that I was about to help someone.
14:59I said, give your life to God or speak to my pastor.
15:05And at some point, he agreed.
15:08He sold his story to Pastor Gift as well.
15:11As soon as Pearl came in, I asked him, why did he do what he did?
15:16His response was, I'm sorry.
15:18I didn't mean to do it.
15:19I don't know what got into me.
15:24I actually said, well, call the police right now.
15:27You know, she said, please give, let's not, he needs help.
15:30We prayed together, and then him and I left.
15:35And I saw a police van.
15:37I said, oh, we can ask the police to drop you off.
15:41And that was the last time I ever saw his face.
15:47I gave him a Bible that day.
15:53I think some part of me always wanted to feel how it feels like to have a knife and have
15:59somebody under your control.
16:11So we get this post-mortem report about the suicide of a Facebook rapist.
16:17The post-mortem showed a wizened body, severely burnt.
16:24It also showed that there'd been some major foul play.
16:32Tabo Besta had a cranial injury, a blow to the head, which was probably fatal.
16:38And it indicated that there was no inhalation of fumes.
16:42So this was definitely not simply a suicide.
16:47This was someone who died some time before and placed inside the cell and then severely burnt.
16:55The police then changed the docket from a suicide investigation to a homicide investigation.
17:06Someone may have murdered Tabo Besta in his prison cell.
17:13Before the fire, Besta had requested to be put in solitary confinement because he was getting threats and he feared
17:21for his life.
17:23I informed the authorities.
17:25I know that they're trying to kill me.
17:28Murders in prison usually happen with either gang initiation and those are quite violent.
17:34But my initial reaction was, how did that person gain access to cell 35?
17:40Because he was inside a locked single cell in this hyper-secure area of Mangong Supermax.
17:49There were some 20 personnel on duty that night.
17:54And it's hard to believe that any of them weren't either party to what was happening or warned to look
18:02away.
18:05What does it say about security in South Africa's prisons?
18:09Organised crime syndicates are running these centres.
18:13Police at the time realised that something was amiss
18:16and they then prevented Dr. Nandipa from doing the funeral.
18:24Nandipa Magadumana approached the Pretoria High Court.
18:29She filed an urgent application for the court to grant her the right to basically bury Besta.
18:37saying that it was a gross missed duty.
18:40That, you know, she wasn't able to bury her husband and it was an injustice by, you know, the state.
18:47And it was an anguish and tears application.
18:49I claimed to be his common law wife.
18:53I want the body.
18:56But the police decided that the application had to be opposed.
19:02If your, you know, your husband is murdered, you'd want the police to take their time.
19:08But she, for some reason, wanted the body released as soon as possible so that the burial can be done
19:14almost immediately.
19:18That's when we started questioning, you know, is there something more to this?
19:24And it came to light that she was actually at the time currently married.
19:31Also to another doctor and a mother of two.
19:34I'm so grateful for those little people and just having them in my life.
19:39And that was omitted in her court application.
19:44Under South African law, you cannot be married under customary law if you are legally married to someone else.
19:51So that definitely raised red flags.
19:55And it became clear that there was more to the story.
19:58And that we needed to, you know, put the time and the resources into finding out who is she.
20:05Because there was even a point, I think, where I questioned, you know, do we have the right Nandipa?
20:19Nandipa, our daughter, she was born covered in something like membrane.
20:27In our language, it's called, it's a kumutero.
20:32It's something which is said that a child born with that usually lives an extraordinary life.
20:45My sister, Nandipa, she's a perfectionist.
20:50Whatever she does, she does it to the best of her abilities.
20:55Oh, that one. She was very brilliant.
20:59Brilliant at school.
21:01That was her focus, as well as cooking with her mother in the kitchen.
21:08Oh, she cooked very nice.
21:13It was in the year 2013 when I met Nandipa.
21:18Immediately when we met Nandipa and I, we hit it off.
21:21And from that time, we were insufferable, becoming almost family.
21:30She is very religious.
21:33She had her faith in Christ, and we used to encourage each other with the word.
21:40I mean, guys, never underestimate the power of a good support structure.
21:45She was a very intentional person, so she would always work towards this legacy that she wanted to build for
21:51herself
21:51and the establishment of Optima Medical Aesthetics.
21:57I've always had good skin, so she would always used to say,
22:01you, you know, I like having you here, but you're a waste of a client
22:04because everyone wants to know what you're doing, but you're not really doing much.
22:07That nice, plump look.
22:10She's very good at her work.
22:12Also, very media savvy.
22:14We're joined in the studio by Dr. Nandipa.
22:17Nandipa did love being well-known, a well-known individual. She enjoyed it.
22:24You're huge on social media.
22:25I bought that separately from my medical career.
22:29We just merged and they're working together.
22:31As a proud person, she said, come and look my Instagram.
22:35A man old as me.
22:38Getting to things like Instagram, I was so surprised when I found that she had the following of more than
22:46100,000 people.
22:48I said, what am I going to do with these people?
22:52And then the assets that were being accumulated, that gave the image of money flowing in.
23:00There was no problem with money.
23:02From designer handbags to buying new cars and fancy holidays, and then you were just like, I guess people are
23:09living.
23:09Leave your light.
23:13In 2022, Nandipa is a public figure, an established, world-renowned brand.
23:20She is a hard worker, a family person at the very same time, and she's juggling all of this all
23:25at once.
23:26Don't chase the money, chase the work.
23:30An intellect of note, and whatever she devotes herself to do, she will do, and she will see it to
23:37completion.
23:42How old are you now? How old are you now? How old are you now?
23:51During this period, it was random wealthy individuals that would be around her.
23:58For instance, individuals from the people I knew as friends.
24:02She had new friends, friends with money.
24:08When I first started off TK Ngwana was in 2020, Nandipa had given me a call informing me that there
24:15is a business person who saw her work and had interest into investing in it to further expand.
24:24Nandipa spoke very highly of him as someone you could trust, but I had never met TK in person.
24:34However, in 2022, I was fortunate enough to have been in the reception area, and here comes this guy, has
24:46sunglasses on.
24:47In sportswear, to be quite specific, Mr TK Ngwana.
24:51He spoke sense, and whatever he spoke, you would listen to.
24:55Longer, I want my diary to be consistently busy with opportunities.
24:59I'll do something nice for you on Monday, okay? It's a promise.
25:02His relationship with Nandipa was professional, as far as I knew.
25:08However, the flirtation that I would pick up between the two of them, it got to a point whereby I
25:16could tell no man.
25:17This cannot just only be work.
25:21A lot of time was being spent together.
25:24A lot of travelling was being done together.
25:28So, is this person only a business partner?
25:32Or is he also a partner?
25:36I asked Nandipa, was she in a relationship with TK?
25:41She wasn't comfortable speaking about it.
25:45She's sort of very cagey when it comes to her own personal relationships.
25:51It's a sort of, you take it as you see it.
25:55But clearly, something was happening.
25:58Because TK would pick up the kids from school, from time to time.
26:02Longer, tell Nandipa, I'll get the kids.
26:05I mean, a business, how does your business partner get to pick up your kids from school?
26:14All of these things were happening while the circumstances around the death of her alleged husband.
26:22They were still under investigation because the police were seemingly, at that stage, dragging their feet.
26:31It seemed to be increasingly clear that there were really weird events with this murder of the Facebook rapist.
26:42Slowly, the other suspicious aspects started rolling in.
26:49The Broadway unit, which is the ultra-security, ultra-max unit within this ultra-max prison.
26:56All of which were covered by CCTV cameras.
27:01Which were turned off that night.
27:08I alerted the National Commissioner, saying this is our suspicion, this is where the evidence is pointing.
27:15We didn't make conclusions because it wasn't our job.
27:19At the Judicial Inspectorate, we wait for the Department's report and findings before we issue our final report.
27:27But nothing had happened yet.
27:31And nothing had happened for six months.
27:34We then call for a meeting with the Hawks.
27:37And nothing happens.
27:40It was at that point that I concluded, and I did this on my own responsibility.
27:45I'm not implicating any of my colleagues in JICs.
27:48I concluded that this had to be made public.
27:57Our editor called us all in and said, close the door.
28:00We've got something important we need to discuss.
28:02And that's when he explained to us that he had received a tip-off from Justice Edwin Cameron.
28:08That Thabo Besta died under peculiar circumstances.
28:13We wondered whether corruption was involved.
28:15We wondered whether it was just incompetence.
28:18Those are the issues that we pursue.
28:20And that's when we knew we needed to put someone on this immediately.
28:25No, just fixing my hair.
28:28So the first article that was published just focused on how after six months,
28:35there was still very little information about the investigation and so many mysteries surrounding what exactly happened that night.
28:42And in that report, we also included some of the rumors that were going around about Besta was afraid of
28:48the numbers gang and that he was fearing for his life.
28:51And that they might have been responsible for his death.
28:59But to our surprise, it did not get the traction and the attention that we thought and expected.
29:06I don't entirely blame the public for not being empathetic to the news of his passing because he was a
29:12rapist and a murderer who murdered a woman.
29:20Because for me, what's kind of striking is that, I mean, you have the two rapes that occur, what do
29:25you say, a week or two apart.
29:26A week apart.
29:27And how did things sort of progress? Because obviously we know some more serious things kind of followed from there.
29:40We came from London in 2010.
29:44Our guest house originally, it was named Ocean Breeze Villa.
29:49And our second guest was Thomas Besta.
29:54He requested two nights to stay with his girlfriend.
29:59So they arrived on taxi about nine o'clock in the evening.
30:03She was slightly taller than Besta.
30:06She was wearing high heels.
30:07She had designer bag.
30:09She just behaved herself as very intelligent and very well brought up girl, you know, from the good family.
30:18And then around about, not late night, about two or three, three o'clock I woke up, we had a
30:24fight.
30:24I realized that there's no, there's no denying it.
30:29In the morning, she's probably going to want to leave the first thing in the morning.
30:33So I did not have a sin that spent all my money on her and everything.
30:39I went downstairs, got a knife.
30:41When I got up, when I got back in the room, she was awake and standing.
30:46But she did not understand what I was doing with the knife.
30:55Early morning, about seven o'clock in the morning, he was locking the door in front of me.
31:00And I said, why do you lock her in?
31:02He said, oh, don't worry about her.
31:04We've been walking all night and she's very tired.
31:07So she'll be sleeping all day and I'll come back lunchtime.
31:11My husband came down and they went to the city center.
31:16He asked him to drop him at the bus station.
31:21And I started checking on her three times.
31:24I knocked on the door and I had no response whatsoever.
31:27And then in the evening, they said, Kevin, something is not right in that room.
31:34And when we came in, it was a mess.
31:38And I noticed this her silhouette under the duvet, totally covered by things.
31:44And I just lifted to the corner of this duvet and I saw blood.
31:49And I said, Kevin, call the police, she's dead.
31:54That's a senseless, senseless loss of life.
31:57Terrible.
31:59He's definitely a psychopath.
32:02100%.
32:04Completely detached.
32:08So my intention was never to kill anyone.
32:11But I'm responsible for her death, yes.
32:13I'm not responsible for killing her.
32:16I read the papers and I feel like they're talking about somebody else.
32:21I look at these charges and I don't think it's me.
32:24It just shows you sometimes what God or the universe is protecting you from even when you had no idea.
32:31Because I had no fucking clue what I was dealing with.
32:38He's a psychopath.
32:42I couldn't have helped him.
32:46That day I dropped him off.
32:49I...
32:49Once the police put him, because they put him at the back of the van, I could have...
32:53I could have told him what had happened and maybe I could have gotten him locked up and...
32:59And that I could have saved someone's life.
33:03Like someone who actually needed to be saved.
33:20So do you think you would have done something like this again if you hadn't got arrested for that other...
33:27Are you trying to say, am I dangerous to the community or anything like that?
33:33Yeah, I don't think so.
33:45I was asking myself at the time who else would have wanted Bester dead if it wasn't him who had
33:50committed suicide.
33:52And even Dr. Nandipa's involvement in this was suspicious.
33:58Which is why I think it's odd that police had never considered her as a person of interest.
34:04So I knew that there had to be more to this.
34:11I met Dr. Nandipa.
34:13Yes, she was the owner of Optimum.
34:17We were...
34:18We were providing security services for the Green Park Corner building.
34:23First time I saw TK as a share with Dr. Nandipa.
34:28Then, yeah, that's when we saw him.
34:31Nice guy, he's dressing smart.
34:35And then we were told that he's the new owner of Optimum from overseas.
34:44That's when we started to notice the change.
34:47The ladies we used to see at Optimum, they were no longer working.
34:51It was other people.
34:53Everything changed when TK arrived.
34:58So that's when I realised that this business partner is all of a sudden involved in almost everything and anything
35:06that has to do with Dr. Nandipa and Optimum Medical Aesthetics.
35:14If you are myself, you'd want to know who this person is and what he does so that you get
35:19better insight of what she's dealing with.
35:21Because he was introduced to be this prominent businessman, but even if you were to Google him, you'd find nothing
35:28about him.
35:30A lot wasn't adding up to me and I was worried, I was concerned as a friend.
35:37So myself and Nandipa, we are having a lunch meeting so as to understand what is really happening.
35:47Then in the middle of the meeting, here comes about, there's four guys, there's four guys.
35:57Dr. Nandipa, how are you, Marcel? How are you? Can we sit?
36:01No, you can sit down.
36:03There's a case open against you. There's a doctor against you.
36:06You took the car off the border to Zimbabwe. You're still outstanding, 700,000.
36:12The car's still standing at the border. We've tracked the car to the border.
36:15He trusted you and you went back on your word that you haven't paid him in full.
36:20How are we going to get that 700?
36:23And they're like, Dr. Nandipa, this is with regards to Mercedes-Benz S-Class that you drove, left at the
36:32border, didn't pay this much.
36:34Like, I've never seen any S-Class. I've never known of any trip to Zimbabwe.
36:41I do not know who these people are.
36:44There is a case, but Devon said we can do this amicably. All he wants is his money.
36:49So you just need to prepare the outstanding 700,000 and you'll leave it.
36:53I'll speak to the person Devon had an agreement with, and then I will let you know.
36:58Who is that person?
36:59At this point, I am completely confused.
37:01I asked, what was that about?
37:05And she's like, pray for me.
37:07Clearly they're coming for me. They're coming to destroy me.
37:10They're coming for my reputation and they're coming for everything that I have.
37:13But the question now is, who are they?
37:17And all of a sudden, she had a driver and a bodyguard. And that was, why do you need a
37:24bodyguard?
37:26At this time, she'd also distance herself from a lot of friends and a lot of social gatherings.
37:33So she was quite isolated.
37:40I could see that, like her, her light was not there anymore.
37:46She was more tense than she was previously, because she was just not feeling good about herself.
37:53Or there was so much more going on.
37:57Nandipa, she was very scarce, even around the parents.
38:02And the parents were actually worried and a bit concerned.
38:07It's not like Nandipa to turn a blind eye into them being around.
38:12I started to see changes that time. And I kept thinking, what happened to Nandipa?
38:22She was always stressed on a phone call, you know, not paying attention to a lot of things that was
38:28happening around her.
38:34She never had one number. There was also another Jew.
38:38Until I decided, you know what, let me start contacting the practice whenever I wanted to reach her.
38:46Constantly, she's out of office, she's seeing client.
38:49And I don't know about this.
38:50This behavior now is kind of unsettling with one.
38:59My concern led me to unannounced rock-up at her house.
39:05And she's like, is it fine if you take it to the tennis court?
39:09Even before saying anything, the tears she cried.
39:14She was emotional.
39:17She doesn't need to say much.
39:19I knew that something certainly was not right.
39:25She wasn't herself. She wasn't happy.
39:28But then she wouldn't say, come out and say, what is actually wrong?
39:33I strongly believed that TK might have had a contribution to what she was undergoing.
39:42Because prior to that, I had never known Nandipa to be in that state.
39:51Was he not the reason for what my friend is undergoing?
39:56Because my friend is not speaking about it, of which it's very unusual.
40:00I didn't know what was his intention, because he positioned himself to gain power and access to all that she
40:13is and all that she's about.
40:16A lot of approvals had to come from him prior to anything being made or any decision being taken.
40:24And whatever he says goes.
40:27Just make sure that you and Nandipa sort out my website and that Nandipa tomorrow does a video for your
40:33YouTube and does the introduction of Optimum.
40:36We used to share scripture a lot with each other and she would require so much of it this time
40:42around.
40:43It was a need. It was a cry for serious help. It was a cry that I need God now
40:48more than ever.
40:55For almost a year, nothing was happening with this investigation.
41:00The number you have dialed is not exactly.
41:02We had been stonewalled by so many of the authorities, so we were still missing crucial evidence to take the
41:08story forward.
41:09I reached a point where it felt as if we were chasing a ghost.
41:16But in March, we finally got hold of the full autopsy report, which showed that the person had died due
41:23to a blunt force head injury.
41:25But interestingly, this report also showed that the person was around 1.45 metres, which was odd because in a
41:35mug shot that we had found of Bester, he stood well above 1.7 metres.
41:43And that was a significant difference. Even if a person has died through fire, there's no way that a body
41:52would shrink to that significant amount.
41:58You also had Macy Mabasso, Kabul Bester's mother. Her DNA didn't match to the body.
42:08So the question was, who had died in that cell and what had happened to Kabul Bester?
42:15So you published a report as Ground Up this morning, basically telling us that Bester may be alive.
42:21Begging the question of how this happened at a maximum security prison, that in itself remains a mystery.
42:28In a private prison where the numbers of inmates are closely monitored.
42:33Incredible stuff. You just cannot make this kind of thing up.
42:37Certainly the story that everyone has been speaking about across the country.
42:40It was one of the busiest and chaotic times at Ground Up. The phones were ringing off the hook.
42:45More people have been coming forward with their own information.
42:49We were getting far more emails than what we could actually process.
42:55And that's when we got, I think, a phone call from someone that says, I've got a photo.
43:01It was this woman, and she explained that she was in Woolworths in Sandton City sometime in June 2022, a
43:11month after Bester had supposedly died.
43:14She saw Nandipa, and she, as well as a friend, are pretty big fans of Nandipa.
43:20So she quickly tried to take a picture of her.
43:23And in that picture, we see Nandipa shopping with a man who very closely resembled Tabo Bester.
43:32Then I started realizing, whoa, that photo revealed that a rapist and a murderer was out in the public at
43:41the pay toll with Nandipa Magarumana, who was with her two young children.
43:45This proved that Bester had fake T-State and he had escaped.
43:51I don't know this type of Bester guy.
43:54This is TK.
44:19Nandipa Magarumana's plays
44:22TK.
45:01You
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