Pistorius appears to have started dating a blonde management consultant from Wackerstroom, Mpumalanga.
Convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius is said to have found new love just months after being released on parole.
Pistorius, who lives with his uncle in Pretoria, has apparently started dating 33-year-old blonde Rita Grayling, a long-time family friend and management consultant from Wackerstroom, Mpumalanga. network 24.
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Grayling bears a striking resemblance to his late ex-girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, whom he shot and killed on Valentine's Day in 2013.
The news site has reported that since 29-year-old farmer Willem Kruger, from Grobladal, Limpopo, drowned at a grayling brothers' stag party at Henbase Lodge near Morgenzon in November 2022. Grayling's family has been in the news for the past two years.
A source close to the couple confirmed to the publication that Pistorius and Grayling are in a romantic relationship.
Details of their relationship remain private, but both families are believed to have known each other for many years.
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The double amputee, nicknamed “Blade Runner'' because of the prosthetic legs he used to compete in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, was released on parole from Pretoria's Atteridgeville Correctional Center in January.
Although Pistorius is effectively a free man, he is assigned a supervisory correctional officer to work with him until the end of his sentence and cannot leave the Waterkloof area without notifying the correctional officer.
Pistorius traded his adapted cell for his own fortified “Oscar Cottage” on the vast estate of his uncle, a real estate mogul. It boasts a R47-million mansion, which coincidentally is a renovated former Dutch Reformed Church parsonage.
Last October, Tanya Cohen, the Steenkamp family's attorney, said: The Citizen The family's view was that Pistorius had the same rights as other criminals.
“We've always said, and remember what Barry said, the law should be moving in that direction, and the law is moving in that direction.”
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He shot and killed his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the early morning hours of Valentine's Day 2013.
Mr Pistorius claimed he woke up in the early hours of the morning wondering if a burglar had broken in without realizing Mr Steenkamp was in the bathroom.
While Reba was standing behind a locked bathroom door, the man opened fire, killing her instantly with a special “dum dum” bullet. But Reba's family has always insisted it was intentional.
Mr Pistorius was originally sentenced to six years in prison by North Gauteng High Court Judge Thokozile Masipa in 2016. However, this sentence was overturned by the SCA in 2017 and effectively increased to 13 years and 5 months in prison.
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