Thabo Bester, ‘The Facebook Rapist’ and prison escapee, now faces criminal charges. Bester, who ran a business from jail, escaped from Mangaung Prison last year, having faked his suicide. What exactly has been going on at Mangaung Prison, and for how long? And who knew? Ruth Hopkins’ book, The Misery Merchants: Life and Death in a Private South African Prison, tells the shocking story of Mangaung Prison. Ruth Hopkins’s brave and extraordinary book, The Misery Merchants: Life and Death in a .
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In 2020, independent investigative journalist and author, Ruth Hopkins wrote 'The Misery Merchants', a hard-hitting exposé of G4S, the company running a private prison in Mangaung. This is the same high security facility that 'Facebook rapist' Thabo Bester would escape from two years later.