Limping 'Houdini' in the dock
31/01/2007 11:26  - (SA)  

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Pretoria - The case of Annanias Mathe, the man who escaped from the top-security C-Max prison, was postponed to February 15 in the Pretoria magistrate's court on Wednesday.

Mathe who was still limping, had no legal representation as the court had not yet provided a Portuguese lawyer he requested for translation.

Mathe, who was dressed in a wrinkled white shirt and grey pants, is facing charges of escaping from the C-max prison in Pretoria last November.

He also faces more than 50 other charges which include rape, robbery, attempted murder and hijacking and is believed to be connected to a criminal syndicate operating between South Africa and Mozambique.

Last week a meeting of parliament's correctional services portfolio committee on the escape of Mathe, scheduled to have been heard today (Wednesday), was postponed to February 20 as the report was not yet ready.

Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour was scheduled to appear at the meeting to explain how Mathe escaped from prison.

The report of the investigation team included the National Intelligence Agency, the police and correctional services.

At the time of the escape Mathe was thought to have stripped and covered his entire body with petroleum jelly to climb out of a window at the prison, but it has since been reported that he bribed prison staff.

- SAPA

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