Rise and Fall of CIT Heist Kingpin Sibusiso Thilili Mzimela | Cat Matlala And The Kokstad Prison

Welcome to Ebongweni Prison, South Africa’s only super-maximum correctional facility — a prison designed to break even the most hardened criminals.

In this in-depth true-crime documentary, we unpack the rise and fall of Sibusiso “Thilili” Mzimela, often described as Mzansi’s modern-day Houdini. Thilili escaped from South African police cells and maximum-security prisons nine times, masterminded cash-in-transit heists, kidnappings and armed robberies — yet ultimately met his match at Ebongweni Super-Max Prison in Kokstad.

But this story goes far beyond prison escapes.

It is also the tragic story of 16-year-old Kwazi Ndlovu, who was shot and killed in his family home in Empangeni on 31 March 2010 during a police operation carried out by the notorious Cato Manor Organised Crime Unit. Police claimed self-defence — a version later contradicted by ballistic evidence. After years of legal battles, the officer charged with Kwazi’s murder was acquitted in 2024, reopening painful questions about police brutality, planted evidence, and justice denied.

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