It still remains a mystery who is the man whose body was found charred in a Mangaung Prison cell as the man believed to have died is a dead man living, after being spotted in Sandton recently with the popular Dr Nandipha Magudumana known as Dr Nandi. Last year a fire broke out at the said prison and it was revealed the person was dead before the fire broke out and that it was that of Thabo Bester, the incarcerated Facebook rapist.

BESTER'S WIFE

Celebrity doctor and his "customary law' wife Dr Nandi collected Bester's body, claiming to be Bester's wife, but the body was later confiscated by police. A woman, claiming to be his biological mother, tried to claim the body, but her DNA did not match his. GroundUp reported that they spoke to Meisie Mabaso on the phone, who was found to be Bester's biological mother. She said that she went to pick up his body after hearing about it on the radio and wanted to bury him. But she wasn't given the body because DNA results comparing her to the body, did not match. She said that she was unaware of Bester's marriage to Dr Nandi as they were not close.

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SPOTTED IN SANDTON

The Facebook rapist was sentenced to 50 years in prison for raping and robbing two models in October 2011. He used his social media platform to lure women, claiming to be an international model scout. Armed with a knife, he would rape and robbed the women. In 2012, Bester was given life imprisonment for for the murder of Johannesburg model and car salesperson Nomfundo Tyhulu (23) , after the court found that he stabbed woman in her chest at a bed and breakfast accommodation facility in Cape Town, while they were on holiday together.

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DR NANDI'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FACEBOOK RAPIST

People are shocked to the core by the recent turn of events and the affiliation of Dr Nandi, who runs Optimum Medical Aesthetic Solutions, a cosmetics surgery company in this whole mess. Dr Nandi has 124,000 Instagram followers and was named one of the Mail & Guardian's 200 Young South Africans in 2018. She claimed that she had met Bester in 2006 while studying at Wits University. They had a good relationship until they lost contact in 2011. She reached out to him again in 2017 to "rekindle our relationship' and started visiting him in prison. Dr Nandi's affidavit did not mention that she had been in a civil marriage with another man since 2013, and is still registered as such on Home Affairs' database. Under customary law, marriages are not allowed if one party is already married under civil law. During his sentencing trial in 2011, Bester said under oath that he was abandoned by his mother at a young age and he dropped out of school in Grade 5, yet Dr Nandi said she met him at university.