The Blackheart Diaries
This film follows the story of Lazarus Mazingane, who is alive and incarcerated at Leeuwkop Maximum Security Prison. He has spent the last ten years behind bars after a five-year reign of terror on Johannesburg's ethnic women. Posing as a taxi driver, he raped and strangled over 20 women in the 1990s and was eventually caught at the age of 25.
This film follows the story of Lazarus Mazingane, who is alive and incarcerated at Leeuwkop Maximum Security Prison. He has spent the last ten years behind bars after a five-year reign of terror on Johannesburg's ethnic women. Posing as a taxi driver, he raped and strangled over 20 women in the 1990s and was eventually caught at the age of 25.
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