PEN1502 Assignment 4 Due 3 Sept 2024

PEN1502
Page 2 of 3 Due Date: 3 September 2024

Confiscated the body after they found that Magudumana had claimed another body
in April, claiming it was a relative, only for the body to be found floating in a river.

Also in May, Magudumana approached the North Gauteng High Court in a bid to
seek relief against the police, for her to be allowed to cremate the body. She had
claimed to be Bester’s customary wife, but it was found that she was still in a civil
union with Dr Mkhuseli Magudumana, per home affairs records at the time.

Judge Edwin Cameron, the head of the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional
Services, who also appeared in Parliament, said the police should have ensured
Magudumana was arrested for perjury solely based on the untruths she had
presented to court.

Parliament also heard from top police officials that an affidavit submitted by
Magudumana in the court case had been signed by an officer who had left the
police force months earlier. Police officials confirmed to MPs that Magudumana
was never questioned, despite many unanswered questions.

– June 2022

Bester and Magudumana are photographed at a Woolworths supermarket in
Sandton. This only emerged in March 2023 publicly in a GroundUp report. He is
photographed sporting long hair and sunglasses.

– August 2022

An autopsy conducted on the unknown body found in Cell 35 finds that the
deceased, initially thought to be Bester, had no signs of smoke inhalation, but had
been murdered. His cause of death was according to the autopsy, blunt force
trauma to the head. Judge Cameron told MPs he alerted SAPS and DCS in August,
that their preliminary investigation found that Bester did not die in Cell 35.

April 7, 2023