Ananias Mathe couldn't escape his fate: the prisoner dubbed South Africa's jailbreak Houdini died in hospital following an illness. The Department of Correctional Services confirmed his death and ...

The Democratic Alliance's correctional services spokesperson has welcomed the death of infamous serial rapist Ananias Mathe on Wednesday, saying it rids society of a dangerous individual. "It is ...

Pretoria - As South Africans woke up on Thursday morning to digest the news of the highly-anticipated landing of fugitives Thabo Bester and Dr Nandipha Magudumana from Tanzania, it soon emerged that ...

Notorious criminal Ananias Mathe's parents never taught him how to behave in a normal society, the High Court in Johannesburg heard on Friday. Psychologist Dr Wickus Coetzee told the court that Mathe ...

Given his military background, it is likely Ananias Mathe could have squeezed through the tiny window of a C-Max prison cell on his own to escape from jail last year, a ministerial task team has found ...

CONVICTED serial rapist and armed robber, the notorious Ananias Mathe, has died. According to media reports, Mathe, who earned the nickname The Prison Breaker and Houdini of C-Max, died in King Edward ...

Convicted murderer, rapist and armed burglar Ananias Mathe was renowned for his many audacious attempts to break out of prison A prisoner who escaped twice from high-security jails in South Africa ...