Thabo Bester: The boy who became the Facebook rapist

[@nenesibanda4171]

Crazy thing is when he was "alive " this mama didn't even bother to visit him ...yet when he" died" she wanted his body. Maybe Thabo became heartless cause of her .

[@faithnyaka4339]

She is not a caring mother

[@LehlohonoloRobert]

Wht was she suppose to do

[@MRSMumba]

Thabo Bester’s mother is such a narcissist. She makes everything about herself and she contributed to her son’s behaviour

[@nenesibanda4171]

Honestly

[@nontobekoncube8450]

They are like that. I have such a mom. When I confronted her about why she abused me she focussed on herself...😂.

[@PeggysBibleStudy]

@@nontobekoncube8450, My heart bleeds for you... I hope you have healed.

[@PeggysBibleStudy]

Many of us were raised by such mothers, but they did it subtly... we thought it was a norm.

[@mzee5533]

As society we’ve tolerated this nonsense for so long both parents should be held accountable for neglecting their kids.

[@vajakatjari4827]

I listen to Malema speach and he made it clear that he listened to elders around him that raised him. He doesn't knows his father but he grew up to be a better person he is today. It means that a child choose what he want to be. Thabo ran away and his mother didn't know where he went. Parents with boys know how hard it is to raise a boy... Boys are hard.

[@nkosinathilinda1879]

I hope people following this story realize that how a child is brought up has a huge influence on how they will turn out as adults. I'm no therapist but I think Thabo's apparent hate for women stems from his early relationship with his mother. I can imagine how terrible his childhood was, more-so, as he was a result of a rape. His mother was broken herself...and she probably contributed in breaking Thabo as well. I am not excusing Thabo's actions at all, but everything has a cause. And believing in witchcraft isn't gonna solve our problems other than deluding ourselves further.

[@riagoosen4489]

Amen to that!

[@emilympiti5131]

You are very right

[@vajakatjari4827]

Thabo stole money when he was only four years.... Let us not forget that some are born to be who they are today....

[@vajakatjari4827]

Thabo was raised by his grandma.. He spent most of his time with her. Thabo was born to be this person. Malema grew up without a father..... Who is he today? A better person. How many inmates is there and they don't act like Thabo. Thabo chosed this life himself...

[@caughtontape5829]

We can blame Thabo's mother all we like but this is about Thabo solely. She, like many young woman in black South Africa had their first born child raised by their grandparents on insistence. Many turned out okay, worse many who were raised by two middle class loving parents still commit rape, murder, heinous corruption and and.

[@nontobekoncube8450]

It's not about who raises the child really but how they do it.

[@caughtontape5829]

@@nontobekoncube8450 I agree and believe the child also plays a vital role.

[@nontobekoncube8450]

@@caughtontape5829 They definitely do.

[@caughtontape5829]

@@nontobekoncube8450 The jury is still out on whether our destinies are predetermined or curved out by our life experience, environment, vision/execution and our responses to these factors. How do you get 2 people with the same set of circumstances having a different outcome in life generally? With Bester you will never know if he became as a result of nature or nurture to your point about " it is not who, but how the child is raised?

[@Aygott]

Upbringing and parents are the reason children either make it or break it. Thabo was most probably a street child.

[@jackiemonyemoratho4190]

Heartbreaking to even imagine how his childhood was like.💔💔💔

[@riagoosen4489]

Don't think he had other choice 🤷‍♂️

[@shokimagongwa5400]

Sli had no business conducting this interview in English though.

[@TshoksOlam]

Would have been so easy for Sli to conduct the interview in Zulu, Xhosa or Sesotho.

[@WNdaba]

Bafunde kakhulu, baphaphela abantu abadala

[@primrosesalika398]

Lol true that

[@sibongisenindleleni4968]

She wants to be yt😂

[@prophetesvutlharhi3581]

Thabo Jesus Christ loves you He is still giving you a chance repent

[@mercyhopeventeleko3884]

Precisely

[@beautifulcrazy]

Her story has changed so many times!! Does nobody see this?

[@juliandou9635]

Mothers let this be a lesson. We need to raise our own kids not neglect them. Mom contributed to Thabo' behavior

[@juliandou9635]

Thabo had a terrible childhood experience, he vowed to make it in life by all means. Unfortunately he took the terrible path and this is wre we are now 😢. Oh poor child.

[@mzee5533]

I’ll like you journalist to be professional and speak to people in the language they understand

[@BriiTheOne1973]

Im hoping she will be a state witness. So much she will tell about interactions with Nandipha helping Thabo to escape. She doesnt have to be parent of the year but if it wasnt for her claiming the body and giving her DNA so many other things may have not come to light.

[@asandadikelatwala4554]

I do not trust uMama. For some reasons this sound like a rehearsed interview. How a 4 yr old disappear and no record of a missing person. I think this could be a plot to dismiss the Legal strategy to dismiss the identity of Thabo against the state

[@Misskaey1]

then decades later you can identify him from the news . what a joke. her story has loop holes.

[@LehlohonoloRobert]

Bester was connected at young age

[@beautifulcrazy]

She wants to hug him? She never bothered to look for him since the age of 4???? This is so F**ked up

[@riagoosen4489]

A careless mother 😮now coming to the surface?

[@Nomalwandle_Ndlovu]

Thabo's grandmother raised him since he was 1 years old since his mother only took care of him whilst he was an infant, and handed him over to his grandmother so that she can start working.

[@GloriousSamkelisiweMqadi]

So if he was born in 1986 started school in 1997 and disappeared third time in grade 7 which was 7 years later, it means he started school at 10 years and in grade 7 he was 17🙆‍♀️😭😩

[@beautifulcrazy]

What! He was 4 years old when he went missing. Did this woman lodge a case with the police about him being missing? What kind of a mother was she. I have been saying this since the beginning, this woman is not his biological mother. Bester is obviously Indian. In a previous interview she said that many Indian people had asked her to give yhem the child as he looked Indian. When are investigating officiers, SAPS and Home Affairs going to wake up? The Minister said that records at Baragwanath Hospital clarified that a boy child was born against this woman's name. We know how corrupt and what ctiminals we have working as nurses in Heath. Babies go missing or are swopped daily in SA. Can somebody please do DNA tests on this woman and Bester. Therein you will find the root of all this evil.

[@leratosweetness382]

He is Indian because apparently the mother was raped by an Indian guy when she was only 16 years old.

[@AF91111]

She was raped and DNA test was already done. His biological dad is indian

[@yoniem9835]

Seems like she was R...ped by an Indian man thats how she conceived him and she was still young

[@tchromosomes-zl7bc]

@Beautfulcrazy. I'm listening to this interview and realising the same factors.... Bona this woman isn't Thabo"s mother a lot is not make sure here. 😮

[@Mimik70-w3t]

i have never heard Sli speaking a local language. This supposedly Thabo's mother need to be squeezed out a lot of info in a language she understands. All she says is me, me, me. Even when she went to sign Thabos Id she was asked how it felt to meet her son face to face and she was, like, I felt dizzy, i fainted.......😁😁

[@riagoosen4489]

Ag shame nè, too late for 😭

[@khululwajelwana8637]

I think it's best we don't point fingers at the Mother because uMama semdala and Still under trauma stories will chance along the way but the main fact remains she never asked or said Thabo should be a criminal and become aggressive and kill people. as we all see Thabo's life during childhood and school attendance was never bad at all.

[@nadineventer9967]

Something has to be really bad for me to take the time to comment. This was an extremely poorly produced "special feature" and the interviewer is totally out of her depth. Sorry eNCA

[@OscarineMlisana]

Where did these people get her number she claimed that they are calling her left and right, this woman is unreal 🇬🇧

[@patson_banks4539]

How can you know that U nandipha was not married to Thabo because you threw him away at one year you evil wicked woman

[@thobekankuna1524]

If you hear this woman very well, she has nothing to do with Thabo's behavior. Look at what Dr. Motsoaledi is saying. Really he was given birth by this woman. Even the school agree that he attended that school. Guys, if you never come across that situation at your home, family, or neighborhood, listen and not judge. If you don't have children or they are young, please pray for them. What will this woman gain by lying to the nation? May God heal this woman.

[@patson_banks4539]

@@thobekankuna1524 we not saying she's lying I am saying she left Thabo at one year old and how was she going to know things about Thabo

[@beautifulcrazy]

Very unreal story. This woman is evil. Mark my word

[@JenniferMalcolm-v8h]

How is she evil?

[@judymsomi2480]

This story is sad regardless.

[@thobekankuna1524]

Indeed.

[@selogilwemabale1894]

DNA was done she's not the mother how come she's still getting the interview.

[@gxobinjasambemntungwa9694]

She is the mother, that's why they found out that the dead body wasn't him

[@mapitsithamaga-xn3oi]

​@@gxobinjasambemntungwa9694 exactly

[@mapitsithamaga-xn3oi]

Mara the interviewer is a dissapointment ....she is trapped in uni language

[@gdewyg]

This is not surprising considering what happened to his mother before he was born

[@PeggysBibleStudy]

He was a product of rape, but he still had the power to choose his path

[@emilympiti5131]

So now the kids are Besters yoh 🙆‍♂️

[@gugupretty7929]

Mara y Thabo bester he didn't come en build the house for his mother or he send money to support the mother

[@etseke]

Mmago Bester o kare ke motho wa madila maan

[@dee-global]

Too much

[@selogilwemabale1894]

Lol

[@jackiemonyemoratho4190]

Absolutely

[@gxobinjasambemntungwa9694]

He had a very tough upbringing and starting school without documents ubefana nentandane unina ephila

[@fridazzy3871]

Sounds interesting. This can explain a lot.

[@KingThuso_015]

I’m not convinced. This level of journalism is not satisfactory. I don’t know how eNCA let you have this story air for South Africans to consume. Like how are the medication boxes conveniently at the top of the bin 😂

[@silencenkungu6835]

Lies this is not his mother make up stories

[@AnnieEveristerMhango]

she is no tthe mother of thabo at all..........she was not even told about the DNA RESULT......

[@beautifulcrazy]

Do where did he live from age 4 until he was sentenced

[@juliandou9635]

Probably in the streets, shame poor child.

[@brookroberson6084]

Well we all know what happened to him in jail... His faith met his end.

[@sahluthuli188]

This all the doesn't add up ,the mom is not showing her face , the police did not come back and give her the dna test ,thabos mom with all respect look where shes living but thabo and nandipha and i quote have money this story does not add up

[@evernicekapita7786]

Uhmmmm he had a very painful childhood the mother is to be blamed the most though there is no justification for what he did

[@JenniferMalcolm-v8h]

Why blame the mother...I think she has her traumas as well

[@leratoannettesekele9901]

😒 Lo Mama ne

[@selogilwemabale1894]

This interview didn't have depth...

[@totsamatsemela-qy4uc]

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[@GodsFavourite2024]

They have two kids? Hmmm

[@E-newsNamibia]

SATAFRIKA 🤔🤔

[@ntatemotseki]

trust you to try ad humanize a serial rapist.

[@sibongisenindleleni4968]

This slindile is a disappointment