Cape Town — Nandipha Magudumana, the girlfriend of rapist and murderer, Thabo Bester, has threatened to launch an urgent application to the Free State High Court to prevent the release of a new docu-series called ‘Tracking Thabo Bester’.
The docu-series is alleged to be a four-part investigation that will screen in two halves, on 15 and 22 March, on Showmax, Magudumana’s legal team requested to view the documentary before it airs or she will be taking the channel to court.
In the letter of demand, Magudumuna lawyers argue the streaming of the documentary series may cause “irreparable harm” and give rise to claims for damages in respect of which Bester’s girlfriend expressly reserves all her rights, in toto.
The team requested to receive a full copy of the documentary series on or before Saturday 9 March 2024 at 14:00.
“This is in order to establish if there are indeed any issues which may prejudice her rights, failing which, an urgent application will be brought in the High Court of South Africa, including but not limited, to interim interdictory relief to stop the streaming of the documentary series and any other material related thereto,” Magudumana’s lawyers said in the papers.”
Dr. Nandipha Magudumana has threatened to file an urgent Application in the High Court to halt the release of “Tracking Thabo Bester,” a docuseries on Showmax that is scheduled to debut on March 15 pic.twitter.com/vnLM9EE4s1
— News Live SA (@newslivesa) March 9, 2024
According to The Citizen, The first episode of Tracking Thabo Bester follows GroundUp journalists as they investigate an anonymous tip off that the burnt body at Mangaung Correctional Centre may not have been Bester.
Subsequent episodes look at why Bester was called the Facebook rapist and in jail originally; how a celebrity doctor fell for a convicted criminal and left her children behind to go on the run with him to Tanzania; and who really died in Cell 35.
The trial of Bester, Magudumana and their co-accused was supposed to begin in the Free State High Court at the end of February but has been postponed to 5 June 2024.
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Compiled by Matthew Petersen
