News24 | 'Tracking Thabo Bester': Showmax paid Magudumana's brother R30k, dad accused of sending threats

Dr Nandipha Magudumana. (Joseph Mokoaledi/Daily Sun)

MultiChoice admitted that its streaming subsidiary, Showmax, paid Nandipha Magudumana's brother R30 000 for exclusive interviews – and claimed her co-accused father had sent an email threat to its Tracking Thabo Bester series producers.

In papers filed at the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, MultiChoice's general counsel, Steven Budlender, denied Bester's accusations that Showmax had paid "at least R300 000" to a "State witness", who he said "was motivated by a desire to exonerate an accused person, namely my former girlfriend".

Bester said: "The motive of this witness was stated by him to or about the effect that, 'I wanted to change the narrative as it concerns my sister to the extent that she was under the evil spell of Bester'."

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