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.

Cape Town – Ananias Mathe is taking the secret of how he managed to escape from the C-Max prison in Pretoria to the grave with him, Dennis Bloem told Netwerk24. Bloem is the former parliamentary ...

Johannesburg — Notorious criminal Ananias Mathe was sentenced to 54 years in jail by the High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday. He will only be eligible for parole after he has served 43 years ...

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?

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

Notorious escapee Ananias Mathe is a hardened criminal with little chance of being rehabilitated, Judge Geraldine Borchers said on Tuesday as she sentenced him to in effect 54 years in jail ...

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 ...

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 ...

PRETORIA: One of South Africa's most brutal criminals has become the first prisoner to escape from the country's ...

ANANIAS Mathe, the only man to escape South Africa's most secure jail, stepped into the Johannesburg High Court yesterday, expecting his long-awaited trial to start.But the case was postponed yet ...

In 2006, Mathe sawed through the bars of his cell and escaped through a tiny window in the jail after he allegedly rubbed petroleum jelly all over his body. “This man is going to jail with his secret.