TIMELINE ep Thabo Besteris convicted by the Durban high court for the rape of two women he lured through Facebook and sentenced to 50 years imprisonment. JUN 2018 Bester poses from prison as “chairman” of 21st Century Media,ascam event and production company that hosted a glitzy launch at Hilton Hotel in Sandton. Groundup reveals Besters business activities in March 2023. OCT 2021 Magudumana tells the property manager her husband will be back early 2022 from overseas and they will soon need a bigger property to rent. eater Correctional services reports that Thabo Bester burt to death ina solitary confinement cell in Mangaung maximum security prison. OCT 2022 Nkwana signs in person R43,000a month rental agreement with 4Tune for a Sandown property, which he is renting fora staff member”. MAR 20 2023 MONDAY: Nkwana and Magudumana flee their Hyde Park rental home with Maguduma- na‘s two children. MAR 20 2023 FRIDAY: Correctional Services officials visit the Hyde Park home to search for clues to Bester and Magudumana’s whereabouts. Graphic: Nolo Moima/Sunday Times/Arena Holdings Lm AUG 2012 Thabo Bester is convicted and sentenced tolife \ imprisonment oy by the Western C Ti. Cape high court for the murder of his girlfriend Nomfundo Tyhulu, a Johannesburg car saleswoman in 2011. She was holidaying with him in Cape Town when she was killed Bester’s partner Nandipha Maguduma- naand aman identifying himself as Katlego Nkwana, but who is believed to be Bester, sign aR40,000 amonth rental agreement with 4Tune fora Sandown property. Bester meets with the property agent via video call because he is “working overseas” while he is in fact still in prison. Ce MAR 2022 Magudumana and Nkwana conclude signing another rental agreement of R62,000 amonth with 4Tune fora property in Hyde Parkin 2nd Road Nkwana, whois still reportedly overseas at the time signs the agreement and emails it back to the estae agents. (me SEP 2022 Nkwana signs a R70,000 amonth rental @ agreement with 4Tune for the Morning- side property. The agreements signed after Magudumana asks the agent to email it to her so she can forward it to. Nkwana. Ce FEB 2023 Tune property manager meets Nkwanain person over non-payment of Morningside rent and hands back Nkwana’s work files after evicting him. TUESDAY: Eight gunmen arrive at e the Hyde Park house on instructions ‘of Nkwana and Magudumana to collect their belongings. They strip the house of built in kitchen appliances and chandeliers.