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15 March 2024 | ARTICLE
By Tania Broughton
Illustration of Thabo Bester by Lisa Nelson Nandipha Magudumana and Facebook rapist Thabo Bester have failed in their 11th-hour bid to stop the broadcast of a four-part Showmax documentary about the...
6 March 2024 | ARTICLE
By Nathan Geffen and Anton van Zyl
The Limpopo Mirror is published in Louis Trichardt, a town in the north of South Africa’s Limpopo province. Photo: Anton van Zyl This week the Competition Commission is probing how online news is aff...
21 February 2024 | ARTICLE
By Daniel Steyn and Becker Semela
Thabo Bester (left) with co-accused Motenyane Masukela in court on Wednesday. Photos: Becker Semela The pre-trial conference in the Thabo Bester escape case has been postponed to 5 June. The prosecu...
18 December 2023 | ARTICLE
By GroundUp Staff
Springbok rugby captain Siya Kolisi takes a selfie with fans outside the City Hall in Cape Town. The Springboks toured the country to celebrate their World Cup win. Photo: Matthew Hirsch Protesting ...
11 December 2023 | ARTICLE
By Daniel Steyn and Marecia Damons
Convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester escaped from Mangaung Correctional Centre in May 2022. Archive photo: Becker Semela In April ministers, G4S representatives and top police and prison offic...
1 December 2023 | ARTICLE
By GroundUp Staff
Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn show their Journalist of the Year awards won jointly with Jeff Wicks from News24. Photo supplied The 2023 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards were held in Johannesbu...
7 November 2023 | ARTICLE
By Tania Broughton
It was another legal setback for Nandipha Magudumana on Tuesday when she failed to convince a judge that she should be granted bail. Magudumana had approached the Bloemfontein High Court in an appeal...
11 October 2023 | ARTICLE
By Daniel Steyn and Becker Semela
The charges against Tieho Makhotsa (left) and Nastassja Jansen (centre) were withdrawn in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. Zanda Moyo (in the blue top) will remain in custody along w...
11 October 2023 | ARTICLE
By Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn
Here is an extract from The Thabo Story: The Facebook Rapist, the Celebrity Doctor and the Escape from Cell 35, by GroundUp reporters Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn. The book goes on sale on Wednesd...
11 October 2023 | ARTICLE
By GroundUp Staff
Thabo Bester and Nandipha Magudumana in court on 8 August 2023. Photo: Becker Semela NB Publishers, GroundUp News, and several booksellers received a letter of demand on Friday afternoon from law fir...