South Africans hoping for some closure this week in the saga of Oscar Pistorius’s tragic fall were doomed to be disappointed, as a judge set the athlete’s sentencing date for July and people woke up to a gruesome image of Reeva Steenkamp’s body on the front page of some morning newspapers.
More than three years after Pistorius shot Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine’s Day, the crime continues to grip and divide South Africa, where the O.J. Simpson-style broadcast of the trial has become a national obsession. Read the full article here.