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00:00 Former Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison on Friday.
00:07 He was granted parole nearly 11 years after killing his girlfriend Riva Steenkamp.
00:12 Here is a look at what will happen to him after his release on the South Africa's so-called
00:17 restorative justice programme.
00:20 Pistorius was granted parole on November 24th last year, after he served half of his 13
00:26 years and five months sentence for murder.
00:28 He is expected to live in Pretoria and will complete the remainder of his sentence in
00:32 the country's community corrections system, under the supervision of South Africa's Department
00:37 of Correctional Services.
00:40 He will be assigned a monitoring official who will have to be kept informed when Pistorius
00:44 is seeking job opportunities or moving homes.
00:47 He will also have to attend programmes on gender-based violence and continue therapy
00:51 sessions on anger management, according to a lawyer for the Steenkamp family.
00:58 Prior to his parole, Pistorius participated in the restorative justice programme.
01:02 The system was introduced after the end of the apartheid to deal with apartheid-era crimes
01:07 in a more participative and reconciliatory way.
01:11 It is based partly on how indigenous cultures handled crime long before Europeans colonised
01:16 South Africa, aiming to find closure rather than merely punishing perpetrators.
01:22 An integral part of the programme is a victim-offender dialogue, where parties affected by a crime
01:27 come together to try and achieve closure.
01:31 Pistorius and Riva's late father participated in the victim-offender dialogue on June 22nd
01:37 in 2022.
01:42 In the run-up to the parole hearing, Riva Steenkamp's mother, June, released a statement
01:47 saying she was not convinced Pistorius had been rehabilitated.
01:51 However, she said she had no objections to his release.
01:55 After Pistorius was granted parole, June Steenkamp loaded the Parole Board's efforts in involving
02:01 the victims.
02:02 Pistorius' lawyer and family did not comment.
02:05 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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