Nandipha Magudumana threatens legal action against Showmax
Nandipha Magudumana has served Showmax with a eltter of demand following the announcement of a Thabo Bester doccu-series.
Disgraced celebrity doctor Nandipha Magudumana has sent a letter of demand to streaming service Showmax over the upcoming docu-series called Tracking Thabo Bester.
The docu-series about her lover’s daring escape from Cell 35 in the Mangaung Correctional Centre is set to premiere on 15 March.
DR NANDIPHA MAGUDUMANA SLAPS SHOWMAX WITH A LETTER OF DEMAND
As previously reported, Magudumana and Bester were arrested in Arusha, Tanzania, and were deported to South Africa in April 2023.
Magudumana’s father, Zolile Cornelius Sekeleni, Senohe Matsoara, a former G4S employee, Teboho Lipholo, and Motenyane Masukela, a G4S guard at the MCC where Bester escaped in 2022, are among the suspects arrested.
They are facing charges of fraud, defeating the ends of justice, violating a body, aiding and abetting an inmate to escape from lawful custody, corruption, and arson.
According to Showmax, Tracking Thabo Bester is four-part investigation into Thabo Bester; why he was called the Facebook rapist and in jail originally. It also explores 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.
In the letter of demand, Magudumana’s lawyers said the streaming of the docu-series may cause irreparable harm and give rise to claims for damages “in respect of which our client expressly reserves all her rights, in toto.”
“We haver instructions to request that our client and her legal team including the attorneys, Senior and Junior Counsel be provided with a full and complete copy of the documentary series on or before Saturday, 9 March at 14:00 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,” the lawyers said.
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Tracking Thabo Bester
Four-part investigation documentary looking into the disappearance and subsequent re-arrest of Thabo Bester, as told by journalists who broke and covered the story.
Produced by IdeaCandy (Devilsdorp, Rosemary’s Hitlist, Steinheist) the doccie… pic.twitter.com/uxeFqFgytW