South Africans hoping events in court this week would bring closure in the saga of Oscar Pistorius’s tragic fall were disappointed, as the judge set a date next month for her sentencing of the Olympian.

There was more shock for South Africans when they woke up to find gruesome images of Reeva Steenkamp’s body on the front pages of some morning newspapers after Judge Thokozile Masipa granted a request by the family of the slain model and law graduate to make public police pictures of the crime scene. Read the full article here.