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ANC fails to protect whites – Oscar’s family

#OscarPistorius 5 March 2013 8:36

Oscar Pistorius' brother, Carl, hugs their father, Henke, during Oscar's bail hearing at the Pretoria Magistrates' Court. Picture: Herman Verwey/City Press

The family of murder accused paralympian Oscar Pistorius has claimed it needs guns because the ANC government fails to protect white people.

The athlete’s father Henke Pistorius told British newspaper The Daily Mirror that his family could not rely on the police for protection and owned guns for their own safety.

“Some of the guns are for hunting and some are for protection, the handguns. It speaks to the ANC government, look at white crime levels, why protection is so poor in this country, it’s an aspect of our society,” Pistorius senior was quoted saying.

“You can’t rely on the police, not because they are inefficient always, but because crime is so rife.”

Pistorius faces a murder charge after shooting dead his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day.

He was granted bail of R1 million by the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court last month. His next court appearance is on June 4.

Steenkamp was cremated in a private ceremony in Port Elizabeth on February 19.

- Sapa

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http://www.facebook.com/kwame.dubois.3 Kwame Du Bois

I knew it. What a coward! So this is the line his Defense legal team is going to draw their strategy from?

The most logical question any prosecutor could ask Pistorious is ‘What race did you imagine your intruder to have been?’. He would predictably say ‘Black’. So he is going to blame the senseless & ruthless murder of that poor girl on ‘Black-on-White crime’(in a complex which Steenkamp’s best friend have expressed that they moved there primarily because of its safety in all of PTA). How pathetic & preposterous! You have gone from Hero to Zero Pistorious! & You should be ashamed of yourself!

At no point in his affidavit (which exposes how senseless his story is – opening fire at no visible threat of an intruder nor a human silhouette other than ‘noises’ behind a locked/closed door – what if it was rats or bad plumbing?) or anywhere has he openly said ‘I took Reeva Steenkamp’s life, I take complete responsibility, It was my actions & mine alone that took her life, I am sorry to her parents & loved ones’. Instead you are asking her parents to blame blacks for your murderous actions! What a coward! These are not the actions of a real man.
http://twitter.com/Sanki_Masankos Balosang S. LEREFOLO

they are filthy rich and think they can get away with everything..? the Pistorius family is clearly desperate and they will blame anyone but their son. Like many others, I wanted to give them a chance and afford Oscar a “innocent until proven guilty” sympathy but not anymore, they are monsters who are racist and stupid and they can go die for all I care. they failed to deal with their brat now they blame the ANC for their own stupid actions. They have enjoyed in all the privileges and now that the same has brought them to this point they shift blame. Oscar must face the might of the law and be treated like any other criminal, guilty or not he killed killed Reeva in cold blood. ANC didn’t pull the trigger 4 times and was nowhere near his mansion or in his bedroom and toilet.
martin Bruhide

Its not Whites. Its rich 1%ers who live off the backs of everyone else. And they sure do need guns… For when the revolution comes for them there will be nowhere for this scum to hide.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002564704138 Margie Rensburg

Oscar Pistorius will never go to jail, he will plea bargain. Offer the Steenkamps an amount they cannot resist?????? Just my thoughts. He will fight tooth and nail like dewani. That,,,,i believe is not justice at all.