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• Reeva Steenkamp was a victim of male violence. That is the real story

  22 Oct 2014: Suzanne Moore | When coverage of Steenkamp’s death, at the hands of a famous athlete, ducks the male violence question, what hope for the less newsworthy women killed each year by men?

• Disabled inmates in Oscar Pistorius prison speak out against poor treatment

  22 Oct 2014: At Kgosi Mampuru II jail in Pretoria where the Paralympian was sent on Tuesday, inmates with disabilities tell Daily Maverick of the daily hardships they face

• Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years but ‘short’ sentence fiercely criticised

  21 Oct 2014: Outrage on social media as defence lawyers for disgraced Paralympian seek his release into house arrest after 10 months

• Oscar Pistorius’s trial shows that this society lauds men who act before they think

  21 Oct 2014: Margie Orford: Reeva Steenkamp was shot by accident, the judge decided. But Oscar Pistorius never took full responsibility for his actions

• Botswana president Ian Khama hopes for triumph at challenging polls

  21 Oct 2014: Retired general standing for re-election aims to defy critics who rate him authoritarian and eager to impose ‘puritanical discipline’

• The Guardian view on the jailing of Oscar Pistorius: mirror to a nation

  21 Oct 2014: Editorial: The athlete’s sentence is in some ways a verdict on modern South Africa too

• Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years for culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp

  21 Oct 2014: Judge Thokozile Masipa rules that non-custodial sentence for athlete would ‘send wrong message to community’

• Oscar Pistorius’s fall from grace forced South Africa to reflect upon itself

  21 Oct 2014: The long read: Athlete’s trial fed his nation’s appetite for melodrama and revealed how it careers from giddy heights to miserable depths

• Oscar Pistorius sentenced to five years in prison – live

  21 Oct 2014: Live coverage as Judge Thokozile Masipa decides if Pistorius should be jailed for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp

• Oscar Pistorius trial: the full story, day by day

  21 Oct 2014: As Pistorius faces sentencing for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp, we look back at how the trial unfolded

• Oscar Pistorius should not be going to jail

  21 Oct 2014: Simon Jenkins: First thoughts: Pistorius’s life is ruined. No one will be deterred by his sentence. Imprisonment is a brutal response that achieves nothing in such cases

• Oscar Pistorius sentenced to five years in jail for manslaughter of Reeva Steenkamp – video

  Video (1min 47sec), 21 Oct 2014:

  South African athlete is sentenced to five years in prison for the manslaughter of his girlfriend

• Pistorius siblings say Oscar ‘falsely portrayed by prosecution’ - video

  Video (1min 22sec), 20 Oct 2014:

  The brother and sister of Oscar Pistorius, Carl and Aimee, tell of their heartbreak at how he has been portrayed during the trial

• Oscar Pistorius’s disability not a factor in his sentencing, says Jacob Zuma

  20 Oct 2014: South African president criticises defence team for arguing Olympian should be spared jail because he is disabled

• Eyewitness: Kruger national park, South Africa

  Picture, 19 Oct 2014:

  Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series

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