{"id":14291,"date":"2025-09-12T07:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/2025\/09\/12\/south-african-rapist-thabo-bester-loses-bid-to-block-netflix-film\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:35:46","slug":"south-african-rapist-thabo-bester-loses-bid-to-block-netflix-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/2025\/09\/12\/south-african-rapist-thabo-bester-loses-bid-to-block-netflix-film\/","title":{"rendered":"South African rapist Thabo Bester loses bid to block Netflix film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Convicted South African rapist Thabo Bester has lost a court bid to block Netflix from broadcasting a documentary about his life &#8211; including how he allegedly faked his death and escaped from prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">His lawyers argued that Beauty and the Bester was defamatory, but the streaming giant defended its plan to release the three-part investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Bester&#8217;s partner, celebrity doctor Nandipha Magudumana, features in the documentary, having allegedly helped him escape. She was part of the court bid to halt the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">In a court ruling on Friday, a judge said the rape case was &#8220;firmly in public domain&#8221; and that they had failed to prove that their petition was urgent. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Bester was convicted in 2012 for the rape and murder of his model girlfriend Nomfundo Tyhulu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A year earlier, he was found guilty of raping and robbing two other women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Bester became known as the &#8220;Facebook rapist&#8221; for using the social networking site to lure his victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">He was serving a life sentence when he allegedly escaped from a maximum security prison in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cq65ygpv7p1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convicted South African rapist Thabo Bester has lost a court bid to block Netflix from broadcasting a documentary about his life &#8211; including how he allegedly faked his death and&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e30e7aa0-8fa8-11f0-a14f-a32aad03416f.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}