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It is up to that review board to decide whether the parole board’s initial decision, made in June, will still stand.

Ministry spokesman Mthunzi Mhaga refused to speculate on a possible date for his release, telling the ENCA news channel “it will depend on how and when the review board is going to hear the matter”.

The shamed paralympian, who was convicted last year of manslaughter for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, is demanding to be treated as a king – as a leading South Africa lawyer warned he could be behind bars for years following the last minute decision not to release...

Pistorius is due to be released on Friday after serving 10 months of a five-year sentence, in line with South Africa’s custodial guidelines for non-dangerous prisoners. However, the Mirror reports that Justice Minister Michael Masutha released a statement saying that...

Michael Masutha said he had been prompted to look at the decision to release Pistorius to house arrest, just 10 months into his five-year sentence for shooting Steenkamp dead after mistaking her for a burglar, following an appeal from womens’ groups.

On Wednesday, Justice Minister Michael Masutha ruled a parole board’s June decision to approve Pistorius for house arrest starting this Friday was made prematurely and “without any legal basis” in a statement.

South African prosecutors filed an appeal calling for Paralympian running star Oscar Pistorius to be convicted of murder for the 2013 shooting killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Let’s all be clear about one thing – if there is any insouciance floating around about New Zealand’s whistle-stop tour of South Africa that gets under way with the first of two T20 Internationals at Kingsmead on Friday evening, it is not coming from the players...

South Africa coach Heyneke Meyer says his team is behind him, despite accusations he is not picking enough black players.

Reports in South Africa earlier this week said five black players had gone to the Congress of South African Trade Unions expressing their frustrations over team selections. “That’s my sceptical response and I’d be prepared to receive facts that contradict that...

Larter, a veteran of the third and fourth films (and glimpsed in archive footage during the fifth), is confirmed as returning, though quite what Claire will be up to is anyone’s guess that this point.

Rain dominated the entire Test series as the play in Chittagong had also been significantly hampered due to heavy downpours during the first drawn Test.

Rice played over 480 first-class games, but his global career coincided with South Africa’s worldwide isolation during apartheid.

In an attempt to counter the slide in sales the company has also been innovating with the development of a number of new flavoured products like Crown Royal Regal Apple whisky, along with Ciroc pineapple gin as well as Guinness golden ale and Guinness Blonde American lager.

South African cricketer Clive Rice died from septicaemia during the early hours of this morning.