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Pearl Thusi’s chilling encounter with Thabo Bester: new documentary raises questions
The Star
|September 22, 2025
I WOULDN'T have been as interested as I was in watching the new Netflix documentary, Beauty and the Bester, had it not been for the fact that Thabo Bester and Nandipha Magudumana were so hell bent on it not releasing.
Their failure to block the documentary only fueled my curiosity, so as soon as it showed up on the streaming platform, there I was on it like white on rice.
However, one segment in particular, featuring actress Pearl Thusi, raises questions about its relevance.
Thusi’s encounter with Bester is chilling. She recounts how, back in 2011, Bester reached out to her for a fake television hosting job via Facebook.
“He's genuinely crazy,” Thusi says.
Instead of a normal interview setting, they spent 25 minutes driving around. Bester then confronted her with a knife, and during this tense moment, she managed to talk him down.
Cette histoire est tirée de l'édition September 22, 2025 de The Star.
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