Annanias Mathe (c. 1976 – 27 December 2016),[1] sometimes spelled Ananias Mathe, was a notorious serial rapist and armed robber from Mozambique who 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 had escaped from police custody in a similar way, in April 2005, by offering policemen a R15,000 bribe.
[3][4] His last escape prompted a nationwide manhunt, the events of which were closely monitored by local media.
He was recaptured on 4 December 2006 (about two weeks after his escape), when he hijacked a car in the affluent Johannesburg suburb of Craighall.
[7] Mathe died in the King Edward VIII hospital on 27 December 2016,[8] after his health deteriorated.