by Carolyn Raphaely for The Guardian Prisoner A is a paraplegic man awaiting trial who, like a third of all South African inmates, has not been found guilty of any crime. Despite the presumption of innocence, the country’s 46,000 remand… Read More ›
Southern Africa
The Oscar Pistorius Case Exposes the Creaking SA System and Our Own Prejudices
I have watched the Oscar Pistorius case unfold with a mixture of horror and transfixed fascination. I left South Africa in 1999 and have lived in two countries since then, as well as staying for shorter times in six more…. Read More ›
Oscar Pistorius – this photo sums it all up for me
This striking photo of Oscar Pistorius seems to be posed, painted, staged, carefully lit. It captures the suffering and tragedy of this whole business – from the wooden wall separating Oscar from everyone, to his posture and the agony on… Read More ›
The Oscar Pistorius Case and the South African Legal System – The Guardian
Oscar Pistorius: legal Q&A By David Smith in Johannesburg The South African athlete is due to appear in court in Pretoria on Tuesday for a bail hearing Oscar Pistorius, right, is charged with the murder of his partner Reeva Steenkamp,… Read More ›
The South African Police and the Oscar Pistorius Case
The Oscar Pistorius case is news worldwide. Am I the only one cringing at the unprofessional way the South African police seem to be handling it? Are they not used to the concept of accountability? First they make statements that… Read More ›
Violent Crime in South Africa
The Oscar Pistorius case is on the front page of every newspaper I have read online today. That rather surprised me because even though he is well-known in South Africa and was mentioned quite a lot during the 2012 London… Read More ›
Cry my beloved country
In life, the two young women were worlds apart from each other, but in death they were uncannily the same. Besides their brutal gang rapes and mutilation, both the 23-year-old woman known as “India’s daughter” and 17-year-old Anene Booysen wanted… Read More ›
Stop Rape in South Africa
Today on South African radio stations a beep every four minutes marked the rate at which rapes occur in South Africa – one rape every FOUR minutes. 360 rapes per day. That figure brings tears to my eyes. As… Read More ›
