Annanias Mathe

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Annanias Mathe (c. 1976 – 27 December 2016), sometimes spelled Ananias Mathe, was a notorious serial rapist and armed robber from Mozambique. He achieved further notoriety in 2006 by being the only person to have ever escaped from the maximum high-security C-Max Penitentiary in Pretoria, South Africa. Mathe was initially arrested on 51 counts of murder, attempted murder, rape, hijacking and armed robbery in November 2006. Whilst being detained in the A6 ward of C-Max Penitentiary which houses dangerous and hardened criminals, Mathe allegedly managed to escape by smearing himself with petroleum jelly and sliding out of his cell window, which measured only 20 cm × 60 cm. This escape led the South African press to dub him 'Houdini'. It later surfaced that Mathe had actually escaped the prison by bribing warders with R80,000. Mathe had escaped from police custody in a similar way in April 2005 by offering policemen a R15,000 bribe. His last escape prompted a nationwide manhunt, the events of...

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