SA fugitive believed to be hiding in Zimbabwe

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Thabo Bester, a South African fugitive who is on the police wanted person list, is believed to have skipped into Zimbabwe to lay low after escaping from the Mangaung maximum security prison where he allegedly paid R5 million to at least nine prison warders to help him escape.

Bester and his colleague Zimbabwean smugglers were also involved in a gunfight with soldiers guarding the Beitbridge border post where they were forced to ditch their car and run on foot. One of the smugglers was injured during the shootout.

The car was impounded and remained at the border for months. According to The "Sunday Independent" Bester had faked his death to escape from the Mangaung maximum security prison in Bloemfontein with the help of officials.

Meanwhile, a Zimbabwean woman identified as Shaime Ncube who was employed as a domestic worker in Mooikloof, Tshwane, is also on the run after she allegedly robbed the house of its electrical appliances, expensive phones and other valuable items.

In a post on twitter by PASAF live, Ncube is said to have the left her employer’s baby in the care of neighbours before making the heist .

“WANTED: A young illegal Zimbabwean foreigner who calls herself Shame Ncube who was employed as a domestic worker in Mooikloof, Tshwane, allegedly robbed the house of its electrical appliances, expensive phones and other valuable items,” a statement from PASAF reads.

The baby's mother said the woman speaks Shona and English and she is in her 20s.

“She told me her name is Shame Ncube, but I doubt it is her real name," the mother said.

When she got home, the mother found the baby in the care of her neighbours and when she went into her own house, she discovered that it was empty.

The police have opened a case of theft and are urging anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of the suspect to contact the nearest police station.