Oscar Pistorius

The trial of Oscar Pistorius and Gender-Based Violence in South Africa

by Kate Law on October 24, 2014

On Tuesday 21 October 2014, Olympian and Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius was handed a five-year custodial prison sentence for the killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Not since the trial of American football star O.

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