BLOEMFONTEIN - Convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester and his eight co-accused return to the Bloemfontein High Court for a pretrial hearing.
They face charges including fraud, corruption, aiding an escape, violating a corpse, and defeating the ends of justice.
Bester and his partner, Dr Nandipha Magudumana, were arrested in Tanzania following his 2022 escape from Mangaung Prison.
Magudumana, listed among the accused, is also challenging the legality of her arrest and deportation in the Constitutional Court.
The case has seen multiple delays, mainly due to defence requests for access to further evidence.