TEMPLATE COMMENTARY

The man known to the world as the ‘bladerunner’ faces the fight of his life over the coming weeks as his very expensive defence team attempts to prove in the full glare of the media spotlight that he did not deliberately shoot to death his girlfriend.
The unworldly sounding South African model Reeva Steenkamp sadly gained the fame she craved throughout her life through the circumstances of her tragic death. Pictures and video footage emerging in the hours leading to Valentines Day 2013, clearly show that she was besotted with a man that had managed to overcome incredible odds to become one of the fastest men on earth.
When they were first seen together, they dazzled and astonished the celebrity circuit in South Africa and were taking the appearance of a golden couple before the events of that dark day.
What ever the outcome of this trial – which has been likened to OJ Simpson trial for the media circus and frenzy it has generated – only Pistorious himself will really know what was going through his mind, and whether he was really acting out of a mistaken belief that intruders had broken into his exclusive home.
Reeva’s mother says she will know whether she will forgive the man who shot to death her daughter when she looks him straight in the eye.

Whether the public in South Africa or outside will be able to forgive him or forget what he has done, regardless of the outcome of this trial though, is another matter.