Thabo Bester has jokingly been blamed for a 4.7 earthquake which hit Gauteng on Sunday morning.
Images via Twitter: @am_blujay/ Pixabay, Angelo_Giordano
Prison break quake? Thabo Bester ‘blamed’ for 4.6 earthquake
Someone check on Thabo Bester? Tweeps want ‘proof’ the fraudster is still in prison following an earthquake in Gauteng on Sunday morning,
Thabo Bester has jokingly been blamed for a 4.7 earthquake which hit Gauteng on Sunday morning.
Images via Twitter: @am_blujay/ Pixabay, Angelo_Giordano
Residents of Johannesburg – particularly Boksburg – are still reeling from an earthquake that rocked their homes, literally, in the early hours of Sunday morning. But social media users are making light of the scary situation, even going as far as to blame Thabo Bester and his sidekick Nandipha Magudumana.
The convicted fraudster is awaiting trial following his elaborate prison escape from the Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein a year ago.
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CONVICT JOKINGLY BLAMED FOR EARTHQUAKE
On Twitter, South Africans shared clips and pics of the damage done by the earthquake – registered as a 4.7 magnitude on the Richter scale. Others shared memes about the unbelievable experience.
Unsurprisingly, Mzansi roped in Thabo Bester’s name, whose Netflix-style antics have been just as wild as the quake.
Posting a picture of Bester, one tweep tweeted: “The tremor was started by Thabo Bester. We must quickly check if he’s still in the cell”.
Others responded…
@lungbee: “We need trusted public volunteers who will verify in person whether he is still there. This man & his team can set up a prison background and do a fake photoshoot while he’s ice skating in Switzerland”.
@am_blujay: “We need video footage and five pictures of him inside his cell, something fishy about this whole #earthquake.”
@ponky_david: “Imagine the warders, where Thabo Bester is kept…woke up running around, bumping into each other…yhooo!”
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Thabo Bester has recently made headlines, not just for his meticulously planned prison escape, but for scamming the public while he was behind bars!
The 36-year-old went as far as to dupe the public into believing he was a wealthy businessman named Tom Motsepe, based in New York. However, Bester was merely sitting in his cell at the Mangaung prison in Bloemfontein.
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He’s also convinced the public – particularly women – that he is a hot shot showbiz producer . He’s also claimed to be a luxury property investor since his escape.
WHERE IS THABO BESTER NOW?
Thabo Bester – who is expected to make his next court appearance on 20 June at the Bloemfontein Magistrates Court – is currently under lock and key at the Kgosi Mampuru prison in Pretoria.
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Bester is being kept at the C-Max prison – a maximum security division – which will afford him the following…
- 24-hour surveillance
- Round-the-clock contact with “selected high trade correctional officers.”
- Assurance that he will not be able to harm himself or others
Bester was also seen being escorted to the prison in a police Nyala – a bullet-proof vehicle of maximum security.
