As 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence campaign got underway, former Paralympian star Oscar Pistorius, who killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was granted parole and will be a free man soon.
Three days after his 37th birthday, Pistorius received the good news.
The parole board yesterday granted him parole, but ordered that he will only be released from the Atteridgeville Prison on January 5.
He will remain on parole and subject to parole conditions up to December 2029, when he will be deemed to have served his entire 13-year-and-five-month prison sentence for the 2013 Valentine’s Day murder of Steenkamp.
The parole board sat until
