Recidivist Acts: Oscar Pistorius and the crime that shocked the world (Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial eBook Series 2)

“The life you led was without spirit. It was a wasteland filled with expensive toys and recidivist acts.” – Jani Allan, South African columnist



In Oscar we see ourselves. The hero and the fraud, the conquering champion and the blathering child. We see the peacock and the victim, pride juxtaposed with pathetic wretchedness. Above all we see the meaning – and the meaninglessness – of the entire human drama. It is a theatre we can ignore, but it’s one we’re fated to live in, whether we choose to or not. The horror of this story is that we watched a man fashion something out of nothing for the Life Force, and then reduce it all to ashes. One Phoenix slays another, and then, like Icarus, falls from the heavens. Oscar Pistorius' fall is not yet at an end. In Oscar we see the terrifying possibility where an object, where an identity – fashioned out of nothing – is an insignificant lie. It is terrifying precisely because it reflects that lie at us, and asks us who we are, and what object we are fashioning ourselves into, and what will it mean when it’s dropped into the confusion. Do our lives ultimately mean anything? Are our lives anything more than a lie?



"Great research into Oscar Pistorius's athletics record. South African Photojournalist Nick van der Leek digs deep to assess whether Oscar Pistorius is indeed mentally disabled or something rather different. It puts a great deal of what we saw in court into perspective. And is a wake-up call for the Sultans of Spin and their collaborators, those compliant journalists who never had the guts to expose what they should have." – Alec Hogg, Editor, writer and broadcaster