THE VOICE on the end of the line identified itself as that of the Facebook Rapist. It was Thabo Bester and he wanted a chance to tell his side of the story. The price was low – a few toiletry items for answers to any questions we wanted to ask.
Today he is known for orchestrating the most audacious South African prison break in living memory; bribing warders, torching a corpse in his cell in a high-security jail and then driving out the front gate. But on that day in the Drakenstein Correctional Centre in Paarl, outside