IOL's Oluthando Keteyi calling it "jaw-dropping" and Rapport's Leon van Nierop describing it as "angry, bizarre, brilliant."

While the documentary features many voices, Showmax and broadcasting service Multichoice chose not to interview alleged accomplice Magudumana and Bester for the miniseries.

[3] Bester and Magudumana instructed their legal teams to take actions and launch an application with the Free State High Court ahead of the release of the docu-series.

In his judgement Wilson expounded, all that Bester and Magudumana had shown was “generalised anxiety” that the documentary will talk about them, and that will in some way affect their interests.

“There is no other right in the law to pre-publication approval, where a public figure as Mr Bester arguably is, is the object of a media piece.