Revealed: the tense tug of war over ‘Thabo Bester’s body’

His partner in love and crime fought tooth and nail to make sure the stand-in corpse was cremated

02 April 2023 - 00:05 By GRAEME HOSKEN and TANKISO MAKHETHA

As part of the cover-up of Thabo Bester’s audacious prison break, his partner Nandipha Magudumana went to extraordinary lengths to obtain the stand-in corpse from the Hillbrow morgue and cremate it, the Sunday Times can disclose this week...

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