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Showmax Doc To Spotlight South African Convict Who Faked His Own Death By Burning In His Cell
A Showmax doc will spotlight Thabo Bester, who faked his death by burning in his cell
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. Subsequent episodes look at why Bester was called the Facebook rapist and in jail originally, how a celebrity doctor fell for a convicted criminal and left her children behind to go on the run with him to Tanzania and who really died in Cell 35. The show is being directed by Nikki Comninos, who made her Showmax Original debut as a director on December’s Convict Conman about a South African running a media business from inside jail.
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