# south-africa - Tuesday 21 May, 2013
Carl Pistorius’ case was brought to court shortly after athlete Oscar Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day.
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# south-africa - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
Of all the things to do when you’re drunk, this ranks among the dumbest.
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# south-africa - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
A frail looking Nelson Mandela was visited by president Jacob Zuma yesterday – his first public appearance in nine months.
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# south-africa - Friday 12 April, 2013
A spokeswoman for the Pistorius family, said the athlete had begun a process of ‘interacting with people’.
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# south-africa - Saturday 6 April, 2013
The 94-year-old will now receive home-based care.
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# south-africa - Sunday 31 March, 2013
The country’s sports minister wants an independent inquiry to delve into the FIFA report.
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# south-africa - Saturday 30 March, 2013
The former SA president is now breathing without difficulty.
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# south-africa - Friday 29 March, 2013
The former South African president is receiving treatment for a lung infection.
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# south-africa - Thursday 28 March, 2013
Concerns have been raised about the hospitalisation of South Africa’s anti-apartheid leader and former president Nelson Mandela earlier today.
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Pistorius, who stands accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, is due back in court on 4 June.
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It is the second time that the former South African president has been hospitalised this month.
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# south-africa - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
Bystanders filmed taxi driver Mido Macia being manhandled, handcuffed to the back of a police van and dragged hundreds of metres through the streets of Daveyton, a town east of Johannesburg.
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# south-africa - Monday 11 March, 2013
According to a close friend, the sprinter’s state of mind had worsened since he was tasked with selling his racehorses to raise money to pay for his spiralling legal fees.
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# south-africa - Thursday 7 March, 2013
The South African detective who bungled investigations into the case against Paralympian star sprinter Oscar Pistorius has quit the force.
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# south-africa - Friday 1 March, 2013
Eight policemen have been arrested and will appear in court on Monday.
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Eight police officers accused of dragging a taxi driver behind their car have been suspended this morning.
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# south-africa - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
Pistorius was freed on bail on Friday ahead of a trial on a murder charge over the Valentine’s Day killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
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# south-africa - Sunday 24 February, 2013
The charge is as a result of a car accident in 2010 in which a female motorcyclist was killed.
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# south-africa - Saturday 23 February, 2013
Barry Steenkamp said that he might be able to forgive the Olympian one day if he is telling the truth.
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# south-africa - Friday 22 February, 2013
Eleven African countries have been invited to sign a UN-brokered accord aiming to end more than two decades of conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Oscar Pistorius was granted bail by a South African court earlier today.
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The 26-year-old will stand trial later this year.
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Some lawyers say the state has failed to present a strong enough case to keep Pistorius behind bars as the hearing enters a fourth day.
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# south-africa - Thursday 21 February, 2013
Officer Hilton Botha is no longer the lead investigator, South Africa Police said today.
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The 26-year-old athlete’s trial for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp will take place later this year.
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Charges against the detective has been withdrawn and Botha said he thought their reinstatement was linked to his work on this case.
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# south-africa - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Photographers were briefly allowed to work inside the courtroom today.
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As there are no trial juries in South Africa, papers are not fearful of prejudicing proceedings.
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The South African athlete faces an uphill task to be granted bail while he awaits trial for the murder of his girlfriend last Thursday.
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# south-africa - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
The court has adjourned the athlete’s bail hearing until 9am (South African time) tomorrow.
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The Paralympic champion stands accused of the pre-meditated murder of 29-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp.
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The model was remembered in an intimate, private ceremony this morning.
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Murder-accused Oscar Pistorius is attending a bail hearing in South Africa today.
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# south-africa - Monday 18 February, 2013
“In the blink of an eye and a single breath, the most beautiful person who ever lived is no longer here.”
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Victim Reeva Steenkamp’s funeral will take place tomorrow, the same day as Pistorius faces a bail hearing. He is charged with her murder.
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# south-africa - Sunday 17 February, 2013
The Olympian will apply for bail this week.
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# south-africa - Saturday 16 February, 2013
The Olympic athlete’s family is strongly refuting the murder charge against him, saying they have “no doubt” there is “no substance to the allegation”.
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