{"id":22004,"date":"2013-08-20T01:32:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/pistorius-charged-for-murder-on-reevas-30th-birthday\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T01:32:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T23:32:07","slug":"pistorius-charged-for-murder-on-reevas-30th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/pistorius-charged-for-murder-on-reevas-30th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistorius charged for murder on Reeva\u2019s 30th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/pistorius-awaits-latest-court-date\/safrica-sport-crime-police-files\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13403\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13403 \" alt=\"Oscar Pistorius says he accidentally shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14. The state alleges the couple may have argued and he intentionally killed her. Photo: Alexander Joe \/ AFP \/ Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f180c_pistorius.jpg\" width=\"374\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscar Pistorius says he accidentally shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14. The state alleges the couple may have argued and he intentionally killed her. Photo: Alexander Joe \/ AFP \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>On the day that would\u2019ve been Reeva Steenkamp\u2019s 30th birthday, boyfriend Oscar Pistorius appeard in the Pretoria Magistrate\u2019s Court <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/pistorius-in-court-on-reevas-30th-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\">to find out what charges he would face<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another South African sport star who had an \u201cappearance\u201d in court was Bob Hewitt, who has been <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tennis-great-hewitt-guilty-of-rape-and-sexual-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\">charged with rape and sexual assault<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In brighter athletics news, Johan Cronje <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/cronje-makes-history-in-moscow-by-claiming-first-medal-for-sa\/\" target=\"_blank\">made history for South Africa<\/a> by claiming the only medal for the team at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable victories around the globe came from <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/nadal-beats-isner-in-final-of-cincinnati-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Nadal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/azarenka-wins-battle-with-williams-to-win-wta-cincinnati-open\/\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Azarenka<\/a> who won the respective Cincinnati Open titles, as well as MotoGP rookie <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/marquez-rides-to-victory-in-indianapolis-grand-prix\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Marquez<\/a> who charged to victory in the Indianapolis Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>High five,<br \/>\nEd<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/pistorius-in-court-on-reevas-30th-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f180c_194948764_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/pistorius-in-court-on-reevas-30th-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pistorius in court on Reeva\u2019s 30th birthday<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/19f9a_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Pistorius says he accidentally shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14. The state alleges the couple may have argued and he intentionally killed her. Photo: Alexander Joe \/ AFP \/ Getty Images On the day that would\u2019ve been Reeva Steenkamp\u2019s 30th birthday, boyfriend Oscar Pistorius appeard in the Pretoria Magistrate\u2019s Court to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}