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The Thabo Bester prison escape trial will not begin this year in the Free State High Court due to delays caused by the switching of legal representatives and matters running concurrently in other courts. Prosecutors told the Free State High Court on Friday they would inform the Constitutional Court about delays caused by Dr Nandipha […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa- South Africans are gripped by debate over actress Pearl Thusi’s chilling account of a 2011 encounter with convicted rapist Thabo Bester, featured in Netflix’s Beauty and the Bester. The three-part documentary, released September 12, 2025, delves into Bester’s crimes and his relationship with doctor Nandipha Magudumana, but Thusi’s story has sparked widespread […]
PRETORIA, South Africa- Lawyers for Netflix are seeking a personal cost order against convicted murderer Thabo Bester and his accomplice Dr Nandipha Magudumana in the Pretoria High Court on September 11, 2025, local time (0900 GMT), for abuse of court process. Bester and Magudumana filed an urgent application to block the release of Netflix’s documentary […]
Johannesburg, South Africa- A court heard this week that Nkosinathi Sekeleni, brother of Dr Nandipha Magudumana, was paid R30 000 for archive material used in the Showmax documentary Tracking Thabo Bester, the High Court in Johannesburg was told. Thabo Bester, a convicted rapist and murderer, and Magudumana sought to interdict the documentary’s broadcast, arguing it would prejudice […]
South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services denied social media rumors that Nandipha Magudumana, the former celebrity doctor imprisoned for helping convicted murderer Thabo Bester escape prison, is pregnant in custody. Department spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo told City Press the claims were “fake news,” dismissing widespread Facebook posts alleging Magudumana was four months pregnant and that a […]
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