# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thabo-bester
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:36:32.692Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thabo-bester"
name: "Thabo Bester"
slug: "thabo-bester"
description: "Thabo Bester is a South African convicted rapist and murderer who escaped from the Mangaung Correctional Centre in South Africa after faking his death in a fire in his prison cell in May 2022. He was on the run for almost a year before being caught in Arusha, Tanzania on 8 April 2023. He was arrested along with his partner and alleged accomplice, celebrity doctor Nandipha Magudumana. Bester had become known as the \"Facebook rapist\" because he used the platform to lure models with fake job opportunities. He pleaded guilty to two rapes and one murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment."
tagline: "South African criminal"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1986-06-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.18
  momentum:             1.033707865168539
  historical:           8.640984
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Bester"
    title: "Thabo Bester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Bester"
    title: "Thabo Bester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Bester"
    title: "Thabo Bester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Bester"
    title: "Thabo Bester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Bester"
    title: "Thabo Bester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Bester"
    title: "Thabo Bester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Bester"
    title: "Thabo Bester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Bester"
    title: "Thabo Bester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ts.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Bester"
    title: "Thabo Bester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE_%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Табо Бестер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ve.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabone"
    title: "Thabone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117662698"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump