GROUNDUP Further delay in Thabo Bester trial as court hears complaints of ‘inhumane’ treatment 3 min 2 By Marecia Damons and Becker Semela
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester saga — Still no sign of officials’ accountability following prisoner’s escape 4 min 1 By Daniel Steyn and Marecia Damons
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester saga — Bloemfontein high court overturns ruling, grants three accused bail 3 min 0 By Marecia Damons
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester saga — R10,000 bail granted to one of three suspended G4S prison officers over escape 3 min 0 By Daniel Steyn and Becker Semela
GROUNDUP Fashion front from Thabo Bester as State expects additional arrests in connection with prison escape 1 min 0 By Marecia Damons, Daniel Steyn and Becker Semela
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester saga — five accused want bail to care for their children, lawyers argue 2 min 0 By Daniel Steyn and Becker Semela
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester saga — lawyers for accused challenge police officer’s bail objections 3 min 0 By Becker Semela and Daniel Steyn
GROUNDUP Mangaung prison inmate murder — SAPS, prisons officials point fingers over failings in notifying next of kin 4 min 1 By Daniel Steyn and Becker Semela
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester saga — Escape decoy body of Katlego Bereng buried in Bloemfontein 2 min 0 By Becker Semela
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester saga — international spotlight intensifies on G4S 4 min 0 By Daniel Steyn Marecia Damons and James Stent
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester saga — Nandipha Magudumana may have collected same body from same mortuary twice 3 min 1 By Daniel Steyn and Becker Semela
GROUNDUP OP-ED Thabo Bester and state failure — where were the authorities all this time? 3 min 3 By Jacques Louw
GROUNDUP Recaptured ‘Facebook rapist’ Thabo Bester makes first court appearance 3 min 0 By Becker Semela
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester saga: Police fail to collect evidence of Magudumana’s Bloem trips 4 min 2 By Daniel Steyn and Marecia Damons
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester escape — ministers and officials on the ropes in scramble to answer MPs’ questions 4 min 4 By Daniel Steyn and Marecia Damons
REPEAT VANISHING ACTS ‘He simply didn’t exist’ — Aaron Motsoaledi explains how Thabo Bester slipped through Home Affairs cracks 5 min 8 By Caryn Dolley
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester’s partner, Nandipha Magudumana, appears in court for ‘murder of a number of bodies’ 2 min 0 By Becker Semela
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester prison escape — MPs pull no punches as G4S defends reputation in Parliament grilling 5 min 0 By Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn for GroundUp
GROUNDUP Damning timeline — Government knew of Thabo Bester escape as early as October 2022 but failed to act 4 min 1 By Daniel Steyn and Marecia Damons
GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS OP-ED Thabo Bester saga illustrates the state disintegration that endangers the public 8 min 4 By Raymond Suttner
