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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.

The CSPB of the Pretoria Prison in which Pistorius is being held decided in June to put him under house arrest, also known as “correctional supervision”.

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.

Justice department spokesman Mthunzi Mhaga said the board made their decision before the athlete was even eligible for parole. It entitles the parole board to place the prisoner on corrective supervision at the one-sixth mark of a sentence – in his case, 10 months into his...

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.