Makhanda Prison Break: Tip-Off Leads to Rearrest of 3rd Escapee Caught Begging for Food

• Eastern Cape police arrested the third criminal who broke out of a Makanda prison on Tuesday morning
• Trymore Chauke was captured while begging for food in a tight-knit farming community 30km from the prison
• upon noticing a strange man lurking near one of the farms, the community mobilised and placed Chauke under citizens arrest

MAKHANDA - Eastern Cape Police apprehended the third of seven inmates who escaped from the Waainek Prison in Makhanda, formerly known as Grahamstown's, last Tuesday, 18 October.

Trymore Chauke was tracked to the Seven Fountains District after authorities received a tip-off that he was begging the close-knit farming community for food on Sunday, 23 October.

Seven Fountains community leader and member of the community police forum Zola Mjadu narrated how Chauke was recaptured, News24 reported.

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According to Mjadu, the town was on high alert after herd boys looking for calves reported sighting a man lurking in the bushes along a gravel road near Narrow Farm.

The community police quickly assembled a group of men to search for the stranger and placed him under citizen arrest. The community took pictures of the man and sent them to the police to confirm that it was one of the escapees.

Mjadu added that Chuake was weak and didn't put up a fight when the community captured him. Chauke was remanded into police custody an hour after he was placed under citizen's arrest.

According to DispatchLIVE, four other escapees, Francis Chitho, Nhamo Muyambo, Abraham Moyane and Luvuyo September, remain at large. Chauke, along with Chitho, Muyambo and Moyane, were found guilty of rhino poaching at prestigious Eastern Cape game reserves 18 days before their prison break.

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Nkoli said police are encouraging people to continue feeding information about suspicious people to the authorities so that the four remaining fugitives could be arrested.

South Africans react to the rearrest

Mzansi weighed in on the escapee's rearrest on social media:

@Thereallooter1 speculated:

"Instead of running, he was begging for food shouldn't that tell URL something about the prison his at."

@josemuta asked:

"Why escape in the first place?"

@maabane2020 added:

"He left free food in prison to go beg in the streets."

Dangerous Grahamstown prison escapee hit by truck in the Free State before being recaptured

In a related story, Briefly News reported that a truck in the Free State hit one of the seven prisoners who broke out of a corrections facility in Makhanda, formerly known as Grahamstown.

A spokesperson from the corrections services, Singabakho Nxumalo, said that Bennet Kwarrie, a Zimbabwean inmate, was apprehended by law enforcement after he was struck by the truck on Tuesday evening, 18 October.

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Kwarrie and six other inmates escaped from Grahamstown Correctional Facility in the early hours of Tuesday Morning. Nxumalo confirmed that recaptured inmate is in stable condition at a Free State health facility under strict police guard, SowetanLIVE reported.

Source: Briefly News