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PAROLE FOR OSCAR?

THEY had prepared themselves for the day the man who shot their daughter would walk out of jail a free man. Barry and June Steenkamp always knew that day would come – but they thought that would be sometime in March 2023, a decade after Oscar Pistorius killed their child on Valentine’s Day in 2013.

The couple were even prepared to travel from their home in Gqeberha to Atteridgeville prison near Pretoria to engage in a victim-offender dialogue session with Oscar Pistorius before his parole hearing.

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