Oscar Pistorius to sell Pretoria home to cover legal fees
Oscar Pistorius plans to sell the upmarket $460,000 Silver Woods Country Estate home in Pretoria, where he shot dead his girlfriend last year, to cover the legal fees for his murder trial.
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Oscar Pistorius plans to sell the upmarket $460,000 Silver Woods Country Estate home in Pretoria, where he shot dead his girlfriend last year, to cover the legal fees for his murder trial.
The first police officer on the scene of Reeva Steenkamp’s killing destroyed the notes he made at the time, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria heard on Friday.
Paralympic 400m champion, Oscar Pistorius, has reached an out-of-court settlement with a woman who laid an assault charge against him after a party at his home after a four-year long legal battle. “The matter was settled between the parties last year,” Pistorius’s lawyer Brian Webber said on Wednesday. Webber however declined to give details of the settlement. […]
Athletics South Africa’s suspension has been lifted, the South Africa Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) said on Wednesday. Sascoc said the decision “would give our athletes the opportunity to represent our country at various international levels…”. At the end of June last year, Sascoc suspended [link id=”127″ tax=”post_tag” text=”ASA” target=”_blank”] after its members ignored sanctions […]
SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) has said the process followed at an Athletics SA (ASA) annual general meeting to oust its board was constitutional. “Both Sascoc and SRSA (Sport and Recreation SA) take note of the interim chair and committee, which was elected in a special general meeting of ASA,” Sascoc said in the […]
Athletics South Africa (ASA) president [link id=”172″ tax=”post_tag” text=”James Evans” target=”_blank”] says the annual general meeting (AGM) held on Saturday where the federation’s entire board was dissolved is ‘unconstitutional and invalid’. Neither Evans nor vice-president [link id=”233″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Hendrick Ramaala” target=”_blank”] were in attendance as they were appearing in a Johannesburg High Court to uphold […]
Athletics South Africa (ASA) has suspended five of the country’s regional athletics boards – Boland Athletics, Central Gauteng Athletics, KwaZulu-Natal Athletics, Athletics South Western District and Western Province Athletics – for acting outside the ASA constitution. ASA’s move came after the five provincial boards, led by Boland, had allegedly recruited 12 of the regional executives to […]
South Africa’s Olympic long jump silver medallist [link id=”230″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Godfrey Khotso Mokoena”] will put his specialist event on the back burner to pursue triple jump glory in 2014. “I need a new passion, triple jump has never left me and I’ve been practising it but I haven’t been competing in it,” Mokoena said. “I […]
South African women’s 10km Challenge road race champion [link id=”333″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Mapaseka Makhanya”] says she is motivated to raise the bar further in next year’s Grand Prix, after she was won a car for her efforts in this year’s series. Makhanya was crowned the 2013 Grand Prix champion at an awards ceremony in Johannesburg on […]
London 2012 Olympic silver medallist, [link id=”201″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Caster Semenya”] of South Africa, has her sights set on the world record and Commonwealth Games triumph in [link id=”286″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Glasgow” target=”_blank”] next year, after almost a year’s break from the track. Semenya underwent surgery to her right knee for a long-term injury earlier this year and […]
South Africa’s hope of a good showing in the men’s marathon event at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow next week was dealt a further blow on Tuesday when Lusapho April pulled out with an Achilles injury. “I’m very disappointed I will miss the world champs,” April said on Tuesday. “I have Achilles tendonitis and […]
[link id=”127″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Athletics South Africa” target=”_blank”] has selected a team of 27 athletes to participate at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia from 10-18 August 2013. The team of 21 track & field athletes, four marathoners and two race walkers, includes 14 athletes who have met the IAAF A-Standard for the […]
Caster Semenya won her first race after a lengthy injury layoff on Wednesday night, but fell well short in her attempt to qualify for next month’s IAAF World Championships. The South African clocked a pedestrian 2:06.58 to win the women’s 800m race at the Lahti Games in Finland – her first competitive outing since last […]
South African sprinter Anaso Jobodwana, who won the men’s 100m title on Monday, completed the double with a dominant performance to win the 200m title at the 27th Summer Universiade / World University Games in Kazan, Russia.
South African athletes put the troubles at home behind them to win two gold medals on day two of athletics at the 27th Summer Universiade / World University Games in Kazan, Russia on Monday. Anaso Jobodwana won the men’s 100m gold medal in a new lifetime best 10.10 seconds ahead of Japanese Ryota Yamagata and […]
Athletics South Africa (ASA) insisted on Monday that the country’s athletes will head to the IAAF World championships in Moscow as planned, despite the suspension of the federation by the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) on Sunday. ASA’s President James Evans had been at logger head with the SASCOC for months after he suspended seven […]
LJ Van Zyl’s performance at this weekend’s Great City Games in Manchester was outstanding as he not only beat Jack Green (GBR), but also Olympic gold medalist Felix Sanchez (DOM) in the men’s 200m hurdles. The SA 400m record holder crossed the line in 22.63sec with Green and Sanchez coming through in 22.64sec and 22.68sec […]
Despite warm weather conditions both course records were broken in the TUI Marathon Hannover: South Africa’s Lusapho April clocked 2:08:32 while Ukraine’s Olena Burkovska crossed the line in 2:27:07. While temperatures climbed to over 20 Celsius during the final part of the race both winners ran the second half faster than the first and improved […]
Tiaan Smit (WPA) broke the SA Record in the junior men’s 110m hurdles when he crossed the line in 13.51sec on the third day at the SA Sub-youth, Youth, Junior and Under 23 Championships at Pilditch stadium in Tshwane. The previous record of 13.71 was set by Tshepo Lefete’s on 3 April 2011 in Germiston. […]