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DISGRACED Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

IN a new television interview, convicted killer Oscar Pistorius has said he doesn’t want to go back to jail and that he believes his victim, Reeva Steenkamp, would also not want him to waste his life behind bars.

REEVA Steenkamp’s father broke down in court as he told a dramatic sentencing hearing that Oscar Pistorius must “pay for his crime” for shooting dead his daughter.

SOUTH African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is a “broken” man who should be hospitalised rather than jailed, a psychologist has claimed.

African women have worn headscarves for many years for religious, cultural reasons and even as a fashion statement but they were traditionally worn by older, usually married women.

Napo Khusu likes to think of himself as a taxi driver–educator.

A leopard at a South African game reserve snatched a six-year-old boy and ran off with him.