EXCLUSIVE: South Africa’s Showmax is to tell the unbelievable true story of a convicted murderer and rapist who faked his own death by burning in his cell and escaped prison for a year.
Scroll down for a trailer. Tracking Thabo Bester will drop first ep in 11 days time and profile the story of South Africa’s most-searched person on Google in 2023.
Bester was in the Mangaung Correctional Centre on murder and rape charges and was believed to have burned to death in his cell in 2022.
The first episode of Tracking follows GroundUp journalists Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn as they investigate an anonymous tip off that the burnt body may not have been Bester’s, and they went on to win the prestigious Nat Nakasa Award for breaking the story and its plot twists.
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