Netflix's ‘Beauty and the Bester’ documentary air after court ruling

THE three-part Netflix documentary true-crime series, Beauty and the Bester, will not be interdicted from airing after the urgent applications were struck from the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, ruled this morning.

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Thabo Bester and his partner, Nandipha Magudumana, turned to court for an urgent order halting the screening of the series. It was argued on their behalf that Netflix should hold the series until their criminal trial has been disposed of.

However, Judge Sulet Potterill, after hearing arguments from Bester and Magudumana’s counsel that the series contains inaccurate, defamatory, and unsubstantiated claims and violates their constitutional rights, said the urgent applications submitted to the court were without merit and the urgency was self-created.