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 ...

Notorious criminal Ananias Mathe was sentenced to 54 years in jail by the South Gauteng High Court on Tuesday. He will only be eligible for parole after he has served 43 years of his sentence. By then ...

Feared by citizens and the police - but finally tamed by the justice system - notorious rapist and robber Ananias Mathe flew in style to his home for the next 54 years, Kokstad Maximum Prison. Mathe, ...

Vaseline or a bribe? How did Ananias Mathe escape from C-Max Prison? Houdini-like serial rapist‚ robber and murderer Ananias Mathe is famous for reportedly rubbing petroleum jelly all over his body to ...

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 ...

The list of inmates at Kokstad's C-Max prison is terrifying; the roll-call utterly chilling. Cape gang boss George “Gewald” Thomas. Present. Serial rapist Ananias Mathe. Present. Umlazi gangster and ...

Johannesburg - Notorious criminal Ananias Mathe was sentenced to 54 years in jail by the South Gauteng High Court on Tuesday. Judge Geraldine Borchers described Mathe as a dangerous, hardened criminal ...

Cape Town — While the official investigation of Mozambican Ananias Mathe's escape from Pretoria's C Max prison has found massive negligence, MPs find it hard to believe prison warders did not actively ...

Houdini-like serial rapist‚ robber and murderer Ananias Mathe is famous for reportedly rubbing petroleum jelly all over his body to slip away from a high-security prison in Pretoria. But did he? No‚ ...