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South AfricaThabo Bester’s Lawyers Seek Urgent Prison Transfer
South AfricaBester and Magudumana Back in Court for Pre-Trial Hearing- South AfricaBester prison escape trial delayed as ConCourt appeal stalls caseThe 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…September 20, 2025
- CrimeSouth Africans Doubt Pearl Thusi’s Bester EncounterJOHANNESBURG, 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…September 15, 2025
- South AfricaNetflix Lawyers Seek Cost Order Against Bester, MagudumanaPRETORIA, 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…September 11, 2025
- CrimeMagudumana’s brother paid R30k for Bester doccieJohannesburg, 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…September 11, 2025
