Wednesday, July 06
Cape Town Uber driver Eric Selaelo was taken aback by the news. Like many South Africans, he was expecting double amputee and Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius to get at least 10 years for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a case that has riveted the country’s attention for most of the past three years.
Tuesday, December 08
Oscar Pistorius was back in court Tuesday where a judge granted him bail.
Tuesday, November 03
South African judges have heard an appeal on whether athlete Oscar Pistorius should be convicted of murder instead of culpable homicide.
Tuesday, October 21
Oscar Pistorius will spend his first night behind bars tonight, after he was sentenced to five years imprisonment for shooting and killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year.
Friday, September 12
Oscar Pistorius, the disabled track star who once commanded stellar heights of international competition at the Paralympic and Olympic Games, was found guilty on Friday of culpable homicide, equivalent to manslaughter, after being acquitted of murder charges for killing his girlfriend.
Friday, September 12
The Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius was declared not guilty of murder on Thursday when the judge in his case said she accepted the main argument in his defense: that he believed he was firing at an intruder rather than at his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, when he killed her in a burst of gunfire through his bathroom door last year