Two mainstream media companies have turned the Oscar
Pistorius case into an opportunity to ruminate on the perils of post-white
rule.
Time magazine and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
(ABC) have both in their recent coverage used Pistorius’s defence to weigh in
on the South African “culture of violence”. It is notable that these media
companies have their roots in countries forged through violent processes of
colonialism at about the time when the colony that became South Africa was
being settled, also through violence.
