The murder case against the star athlete Oscar Pistorius who shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp remains and dominant story worldwide; it was the main story on Christiane Amanpour's Amanpour on Wednesday night on CNN International (DStv 401).
Interestingly, Debora Patta of 3rd Degree on e.tv appeared on Amanpour to talk about the Oscar Pistorius murder case, with the story which took up the entire first half of Amanpour on Wednesday night.
"[The story] continues to rattle South Africa and transfix much of the world," said Christiane Amanpour live from New York. "The story of the heroic, disabled athlete who overcame adversity to compete in the Olympic games - his fall from grace is all playing out like a Greek tragedy."
"Meantime South Africa looks on in stupefied disbelief against a mounting series of blows to the national psyche - what one political commentator calls a 'war against women' culminating recently in the horrific gang rape and death of a 17 year old girl which had many South Africans calling for a change of culture even before the Oscar Pistorius case."
Christiane Amanpour called it the "drama wracking the rainbow nation".
Debora Patta was Christiane Amanpour's guest tonight. "Part of the probem is that South African wants its heroes to be flawless. We want to believe so badly in this metaphor of inspiration."
"We look at this specimen of humanity who overcame incredible odds. We're so in love with that narrative that we don't look enough and not deeply enough at the person behind it."
