Sex, drugs and poison: inside Thabo Bester’s prison headquarters
Leaked government department document tells of jail syndicate running sex and drugs rings and organising ‘hits’
11 February 2024 - 00:05
Female prison guards moonlighted as sex workers under the control of a syndicate run by officials and “influential” inmates at Mangaung Prison, from which Thabo Bester notoriously escaped in 2022...
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