South Africans reflect on Oscar Pistorius release from prison

The former Olympic sprinter is freed on parole after being jailed for nine years for shooting his girlfriend

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00:10 Disappointment, as I said from the beginning with Oscar, for

00:19 the act itself.

00:20 I'm not condoning the act from somebody who actually looked up to him and

00:25 aspired to achieve certain successes that he has.

00:29 >> It's a disappointment to us as a whole, as a nation, it's a disappointment.

00:33 But I believe it's something we walk towards.

00:35 As you can see, there's a lot of initiatives that are combating

00:39 gender-based violence and matters related to that, abuse as a whole.

00:44 >> As an individual who's aware of our females and

00:48 the challenges they face in this country, surely we need to stick by

00:53 the message of justice, we need to stick by the message of punishment.

01:00 And if we had to be neutral as to ask ourselves, did he get what is due to him?

01:08 Or the time that he has spent, is it equivalent to a human being's life?

01:13 Then the question would be no, it would be no.

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