Headline-making South African con-artists Thabo Bester and Nandipha Nagudumana are not good people. But they’re also an outcome of a system that predisposes individuals to avarice, selfishness and deceit.
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.