Alleged criminal kingpin Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala intends to apply to court for a transfer from the eBongweni Super Maximum Correctional Centre in Kokstad, KwaZulu-Natal, after his legal team’s efforts ...

Thabo Bester is challenging his controversial transfer from Kgosi Mampuru Prison to eBongweni Super Maximum Correctional facility, claiming it violates his rights to legal consultation ahead of his ...

Thabo Bester will ask the court to overturn his transfer as being unlawful. He is asking for an order that the Department of Correctional Services immediately transfer him to a facility in Gauteng.

Thabo Bester has challenged his recent transfer to the eBongweni Super Maximum facility in court, but South Africans ...

Thabo Bester is challenging in court the decision to transfer him from Kgoši Mampuru II in Pretoria to eBongweni prison in Kokstad, KZN.

South Africa faces severe prison overcrowding with 170,000 inmates against a 107,000 bed capacity, prompting major contraband ...

The department of correctional services says the decision to transfer convicted murderer Thabo Bester and alleged criminal mastermind Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala was based on a comprehensive threat and ris ...

EWN Convicted killer and rapist Thabo Bester has been moved to the Ebongweni Prison, South Africa’s tightest security prison. His lawyers said that they learned this from a family friend who was ...

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Acting Judge William Karam questioned why Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala was held in a KZN prison while his Gauteng trial loomed, ...

Internationally notorious criminal Thabo Bester has been transferred to eBongweni Super Maximum Correctional Facility in Kokstad, KZN.

Convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester has been transferred to eBongweni Correctional Facility in Kokstad, KwaZulu-Natal.