A PRISONER who escaped twice from high-security jails in South Africa died while being treated for an illness that guards reportedly at first suspected was part of another escape plot, officials said yesterday.
Convicted murderer and armed burglar Ananias Mathe, from Mozambique, was renowned from his many audacious attempts to break out of prison.
He died in hospital in Durban on Tuesday "due to complications with digestive issues", correctional services spokesman Thulani Mdluli Kwazulu told the SABC state broadcaster yesterday.
