Pistorius trial gives us a weird glimpse of a changing South Africa [shared from Weave for Windows Phone]
At the end of each day Oscar Pistorius walks back into prelapsarian fame. When his murder trial adjourns, he steels himself for a moment, then steps outside through a corridor of cameras as a bodyguard shouts "Make way!" On the street, police restrain schoolchildren craning their necks and camera phones shouting "Keyo keyo keyo Oscar! [Here's Oscar]", as he climbs into a vehicle with tinted windows.
For a moment, the clamour is like the days when Pistorius, the first amputee to run in the Olympics, was a hero without a victim. It is a brief respite for the sportsman, who shuttles between his uncle's mansion in Pretoria, and the austere court, a wooden cocoon with its own rules and rituals, which can make the outside world seem unreal.
Pistorius, 27, sits on a bench in the dock, by turns staring implacably, taking notes, resting hand on head, weeping or vomiting, as he is force-fed action replays of the moments that ended one life and broke his own.
Case number CC 113/13, or the media extravaganza that is "the Kardashians meet OJ Simpson" in the words of crime writer Margie Orford, will reach a critical point this week when the prosecution presents its final witnesses and rests its case that Pistorius murdered his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in cold blood on Valentine's Day last year. What is expected to follow is the episode on which the entire trial may turn: the appearance of Pistorius on the witness stand.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/23/oscar-pistorius-murder-trial-changing-south-africa-race
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At the end of each day Oscar Pistorius walks back into prelapsarian fame. When his murder trial adjourns, he steels himself for a moment, then steps outside through a corridor of cameras as a bodyguard shouts "Make way!" On the street, police restrain schoolchildren craning their necks and camera phones shouting "Keyo keyo keyo Oscar! [Here's Oscar]", as he climbs into a vehicle with tinted windows.
For a moment, the clamour is like the days when Pistorius, the first amputee to run in the Olympics, was a hero without a victim. It is a brief respite for the sportsman, who shuttles between his uncle's mansion in Pretoria, and the austere court, a wooden cocoon with its own rules and rituals, which can make the outside world seem unreal.
Pistorius, 27, sits on a bench in the dock, by turns staring implacably, taking notes, resting hand on head, weeping or vomiting, as he is force-fed action replays of the moments that ended one life and broke his own.
Case number CC 113/13, or the media extravaganza that is "the Kardashians meet OJ Simpson" in the words of crime writer Margie Orford, will reach a critical point this week when the prosecution presents its final witnesses and rests its case that Pistorius murdered his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in cold blood on Valentine's Day last year. What is expected to follow is the episode on which the entire trial may turn: the appearance of Pistorius on the witness stand.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/23/oscar-pistorius-murder-trial-changing-south-africa-race
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