What is behind the media fascination with this case?
She was pretty. He was popular. And he doesn’t have feet.
What more do you need?
What is behind the media fascination with this case?
Other than a world class, handsome athlete killing a beautiful former model girlfriend in his home by shooting through a door and now on trial with a possible life sentence? Absolutely nothing.
Celebrity Afrikaner disabled athlete murdered his Afrikaner girlfriend.
That and the question of whether it was first degree murder has been the controversy in what many in South Africa have dubbed “The Trial Of The Century.”
He got a manslaughter conviction which outraged the Steencamp family.
My understanding is that, for South Africans of English and Dutch ancestry, Pistorius represented them and modern South Africa somehow, overcoming adversity to keep running, even winning. And that his precipitous fall from grace was more stunning for that reason, especially because it involved his killing the very person he should have been protecting more than any other.