South African Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. Image by: POOL / REUTERS
POLOKWANE – The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) increased the sentence of former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, to 13 years and five months in prison for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Pistorius was arrested on Valentine’s Day in 2013. He had fired four shots through a bathroom door, claiming that he thought there was an intruder in the bathroom.
Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon." – Tom Stoppard
