The Pistorius Trial
It has been said that the Oscar Pistorius trial in South Africa will be one of those events that say less about the procedural bricks and mortar itself than it does about the society it was meant to echo. The drama consultants flogging off live coverage of a trial as suitable consumption would have been thrilled by the copy – South African athlete and role model Oscar Pistorius (the Blade Runner), humbled by acts of lethal madness when he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to death.
