that no common ground was yet found in probes initiated by the department and the Mangaung maximum-security prison.
Meanwhile, the South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights called for Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola to step down from office after Bester's escape, with the organisation calling for additional, high-level investigations to be conducted,."That [Mangaung Correctional Centre] is a private prison. That prison is never overcrowded or undercrowded.
Additionally, Bester ran a multi-million rand scam business while in prison. Bester posed as the"chairman" of 21st Century Media, a scam event and production company, which was made to look like a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.