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Oscar Pistorius, track star turned convicted murderer, set to leave jail

Oscar Pistorius, track star turned convicted murderer, set to leave jail

OSCAR Pistorius' life story from before and after Valentine's Day 2013 reads like the script to two markedly different films – the first an inspirational sporting biopic and the second a grim tale of murder. In the first, he was the "Blade Runner", the multiple Paralympic gold medallist with carbon-fibre prosthetic legs who became the first double amputee to compete in the Olympics when he represented South Africa at the 2012 London Games. In the second he was the man convicted of murdering his 29-year-old girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp - a model and promising law graduate - by shooting her through…
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Pistorius release touches a nerve in country scarred by violence against women

Pistorius release touches a nerve in country scarred by violence against women

SOUTH African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius' release on parole, nearly 11 years after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, provoked a raw response in a country scarred by violence against women. Pistorius, who has said repeatedly that he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder, spent about eight and a half years in jail as well as seven months under house arrest, but for many that is not enough. An average of around 12 women are murdered in South Africa every day, with more than 42,000 rapes recorded in the year to March 2023, police data show. "Considering that I'm a woman in…
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Legal blows for Zuma, Magashule

Legal blows for Zuma, Magashule

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE high courts in South Africa have, in separate judgments, dealt blows to former President Jacob Zuma and his political ally, suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule. In the Maritzburg High Court, Judge Jerome Mnguni dismissed Zuma’s attempt to have his 15 month sentence, which he has started to serve, set aside. Zuma had applied to have the sentence suspended while the Constitutional Court considered his application to have the sentence rescinded. This application will be heard by the court on July 12. Mnguni said Zuma had not met the requirements for an interim interdict. He said the…
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