Dr Nandipha Magudumana has told the Bloemfontein magistrate's court that she did not "voluntarily" leave the country with her boyfriend Thabo Bester earlier this year but did so under pressure and threats from the convicted rapist and murderer.
After not seeing each other for months, convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester had a moment with his partner Dr Nandipha Magudumana when appearing in the Bloemfontein magistrate's court on Tuesday.
and i m going to actually pivot now as i welcome nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett and nbc news legal analyst joyce vance to the conversation. just anecdotally before i get your legal analysis, laura, she brings up good point about how things like test scores that are admitted in applications, a lot of privileged kids are able to pay for tutors, tutoring, focusing on that kind of thing. you re a mom. you ll be thinking about this at some point. you have a ways to go, i ll grant you, but being able to afford tutoring so you get a more comprehensive approach to your testing and will do bester on the tests, if now applications into schools will be further dependent on those than before, that is an uneven playing field right there. and that s one incremental aspect. this is why the schools that i have talked to and anticipation of this decision, they were bracing for it, and it is why the schools have said what you re really going to see now is who cares about diversity
The high court in Bloemfontein is expected to hand down judgment on Monday morning in the urgent court application brought by Dr Nandipha Magudumana which seeks to have her arrest and detention declared wrongful and unlawful.