Current Events: South African Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius Faces murder trial: Pistorius known as the Blade

Runner has admitted to shooting his model girlfriend. He claims it to be an accident, because he says he mistook his girlfriend for a home invader when he fired shots from a pistol through a bathroom door that the !"year"old was behind. His charges are said to not be new and are being moved from #outh $auteng to %orth $auteng. #o far the state has indicted the track star on murder charge and, if convicted, he faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison. &egal analysts in #outh 'frica say they think the prosecution will seek to characteri(e Pistorius as a trigger"happy, irresponsible gun owner. South Africa: Kidnap, rape and murder of toddlers shocks Diepsloot: )n *iepsloot, #outh 'frica were rape is seemingly common, two little girls were raped and murderd. +he two little girls last seen by their mom were playing in the house and when she came back they were gone. ,any people from their village and police helped search for the girls, later they were found in a bathroom in a toilet dead. #ince finding the girls, five men have been accused of raping and killing the two girls. ,any people have been protesting to get help and to stop this from happening to others.

Smart cabs and social games: Africa's mobile tech startups ,obile is a big deal in 'frica. People probably get tired of hearing that, but there are around - . million mobile subscriptions on the continent. ,obile payments are becoming the norm and tech startups are building to it. /stablished industries are being disrupted by mobile and services that have been otherwise lagging in the 'frican market are finding new vigor due to mobile solutions and better and more efficient ways of doing business. #ome e0amples or ideas were 1lever cabs with companies such as 2apacab and easy ta0i. Hundreds of bodies found in Bosnia mass grave Investigators in Bosnia have uncovered a mass grave thought to contain several hundred bodies of victims of the conflict that followed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia two decades ago. The remains are believed to be those of victims of Bosniak and Croat ethnicity from ri!edor and its surroundings" killed in the summer of #$$%" according to the rosecutor&s 'ffice of Bosnia and (er)egovina.The site" at Tomasica in ri!edor municipality" is one of the biggest mass graves found in Bosnia and (er)egovina since the conflict" said Boris *rubesic" a spokesman for the prosecutor&s office +s of Thursday" %,# complete bodies had been e-humed" as well as the body parts of another ##% people.