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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Pistorius shoves race, crime and punishment in South Africa's face

South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Pistorius enters a police van after his sentencing at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria By Ed Cropley PRETORIA (Reuters) - As Oscar Pistorius spent his first day behind bars this week, a suspected child rapist and murderer went on trial at the same Pretoria court in a case that has also provoked fierce debate about crime and punishment in post-apartheid South Africa. Although the two defendants, one wealthy and white, the other poor and black, are from opposite ends of a still-divided society, both cases have revealed an alarming lack of faith in the justice system of the "Rainbow Nation". ...




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