Oscar Pistorius can proclaim his love for Reeva Steenkamp all he wants, but her mother, June Steenkamp, has a slightly different version of their relationship before he murdered her on Valentine’s Day in his home. June Steenkamp said she threatened Pistorius when her daughter phoned her from his car to complain he had been “driving like a lunatic.”
Mrs Steenkamp appeared on a documentary screened on Channel 5 last night in which she recalled the conversation from the car phone. “She was afraid, she was so afraid,” she said. “I said, ‘Will you just give him the phone’. She gave the phone to Oscar straight away. I said, ‘Listen, if you hurt my baby in any way I will have you wiped out’.”
Mrs Steenkamp said that after the incident, her daughter had phoned her again and had spoken about rows with Pistorius, whom she had been dating since November last year.
“She said, ‘We’ve been fighting; we’ve been fighting a lot’. She didn’t elaborate about what they’d been fighting about,” Mrs Steenkamp disclosed in the documentary, Why Did Oscar Pistorius Kill Our Daughter? produced by Shekhar Bhatia.
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Mrs Steenkamp also revealed that in her younger years, her daughter had painted a picture of a man with a gun threatening a “terrified” woman with angel wings and a ladder beside her “going up to heaven”.
“Reeva painted these pictures when she was 14… but we never really realised what they were about,” she said. “If you look at it now it’s clear as anything that this is a premonition.” Source: Telegraph
Oscar Pistorius’ trial has been postponed until August after the magistrate granted the prosecution’s request for the delay.
Oscar Pistorius’ Dad, Henke Pistorius, Blames ANC for ‘White Levels of Crime’ in South Africa
Oscar Pistorius’ Dad, Henke Pistorius, Blames ANC for ‘White Levels of Crime’ in South Africa. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The family of Oscar Pistorius is distancing itself from a racist comment made by the paralympian’s father, Henke Pistorius, who was quoted by the Telegraph, saying the f family owns hand-guns for self-defense and suggesting that the ruling ANC party shares the blame for “white levels of crime.” The ANC has called the comments racist. In other words, Henke Pistorius believes the ruling ANC government is not protecting white South Africans adequately.
Arnold Pistorius, the athlete’s uncle, has issued a statement saying that the family is “deeply concerned about the comments made by Oscar’s father, Henke Pistorius, to the Telegraph about the family using its weapons to defend themselves against crime in South Africa, and especially about his comments that the ANC government is not willing to protect white South Africans.” The statement was released through the family’s public relations machine.
Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, February 14, claiming he thought she was an intruder. Was it “white levels of crime” that prompted Oscar Pistorius to discharge his gun in a restaurant?
Old habits die hard. The truth always rears its ugly head. Henke Pistorius seems to harbor racist views that white are the only victims of crimes, presumably at the hands of blacks in South Africa and should get special treatment. Wasn’t Mozambican taxi driver Mido Macia murdered recently in Daveyton. Was the due to “white levels of crime?” It would seem statistics don’t bolster Henke Pistorius’ claims, since blacks bear the brunt of the crime committed in South Africa. Well, so much for his “white levels of crime” theory. Shameful and yes, racist.