EXCLUSIVE | Thabo Bester’s mom opens up about failed hopes of building a relationship with him

‘I wish I was there for him, especially after my mother died, because I don’t think he would have turned out like he did’ — fugitive’s biological mother

02 April 2023 - 19:07 By TANKISO MAKHETHA

Thabo Bester’s mother has opened up for the first time about how she had hoped to build a relationship with her fugitive son before he was sentenced to life imprisonment for rape and murder in two separate trials in 2011 and 2012...

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