Pretoria - Paralympian Oscar Pistorius will have his parole reviewed on September 18, according to eNCA.
Pistorius was preparing to leave prison last Friday to serve the remainder of his sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp under correctional supervision.
He has served 10 months at Kgosi Mampuru II Prison in Pretoria, the minimum period of imprisonment of his five-year jail sentence.
Pistorius was on the verge of walking out of prison when Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Michael Masutha referred the decision to the Correctional Supervision and Parole Review Board.
According to eNCA, the board will do that in just three weeks’ time.
Meanwhile, the State is asking that Pistorius be convicted of murder, or that he be retried.
In its heads of argument filed at the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein, the State said the only reasonable verdict in the Pistorius trial was murder and not culpable homicide, as had been found by Judge Thokozile Masipa in the high court in Pretoria.
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