When the body of Katlego Mpholo was identified, it was all thanks to finger prints.

Nandipha’s brother, Nkosinathi Sekeleni, knows police have the right person in custody. Nkosinathi went into hiding after he raised the alarm about his sister’s relationship with Bester in a
In an interview following the couple’s arrest he says he was terrified when Bester was on the loose. “I still fear him even if he’s in jail because he’s capable of anything,” he told eNCA.

 

 

He’s declined to comment on the court case, but in the same interview he questioned why his sister gave up everything for a dangerous criminal. “You had a nice life. You had a prosperous husband and you’ve got beautiful kids,” he said.

Becoming a doctor was a childhood dream for Nandipha. “I wanted to be a doctor since age six. All I understood was that I needed to heal people,” she said in an interview with Empowered Youth magazine in 2019.

Nandipha was born in the Eastern Cape village of Bizana and brought up in Port Edward, KwaZulu-Natal, where she worked hard to achieve her goal.

“In high school I started working at a pharmacy. There was also a hospital next to my school and I’d do community service there to get into med school,” she said in a podcast last year.

Her dedication paid off . She was accepted at Wits University, where she did her Bachelor of health science and biomedical science degree. It was during this time she met Bester, who was running a modelling and promotions agency. He approached her to be one of his promo girls.

She lost contact with him when she went on with her studies, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees from Wits in 2013. Around the same time, she married Dr Mkhuseli Magudumana, a paediatrician based in the East Rand.