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WATCH: We want the truth, Batho Mpholo

Staff reporter

Tembisa – Batho Mpholo demands to know how his son died.

The father of a man whose body was used by a notorious South African rapist to escape from prison has demanded to know how his son died.

Thabo Bester managed to break out of prison last year after faking his own death by setting fire to his cell.

A body was found inside, which was initially believed to be Bester’s but it has now been identified as belonging to Katlego Bereng Mpholo.

His father, Batho Mpholo, explains how they got the news with our team in Tembisa.

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He says he needs “the news is opening the new wounds and they need to know the truth and nothing but the truth”.

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He says that police told him that his son had collapsed in the city of Bloemfontein and then died in hospital, before he was taken to a mortuary.

Mpholo urges South Africans to report missing persons as soon as they realize. 

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Katlego who was 31 years at the time left two kids age 4 and 3 respectively 

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