Reeva Steenkamp - beauty with a kind heart

17 February, 2013

A celebrity beauty falling in love of a double amputee sprinter is not impossible, but it was news. It was not bizarre but it reflected a tender and sympathetic heart that brims with the milk of kindness. How this kindness is to be rewarded? With the bullets of one who was at the receiving end of at all that compassion.

The South African double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius is the accused and the victim is a beauty with a heart and brain - Reeva Steenkamp. Who was she? She described herself on Twitter like this: “SA Model, Cover Girl, Tropica Island of Treasure, Celeb Contestant, Law Graduate, Child of God.”

She had strong ideas against women’s abuse and violence. She was scheduled to deliver a lecture to schoolchildren of Johannesburg the day she was killed. Topic – “Her experience with abuse from a previous relationship.” Hours before the speech he got the last call of her life.

Born in Cape Town, she was brought up in Port Elizebeth, studied at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, SA. She was a working model and used to appear for South African version of men’s magazine FHM. She also worked for the ad campaigns of TOYOTA clothing giant ZUI. Her friends and co-workers described her as a ‘talented’, ‘angelic’, ‘funny’, ‘inspiring’ and ‘intelligent’. She had started her modeling career with AVON Cosmetics.

She was well behaved, self-confident, social and outspoken. Tweeting was her favorite hobby. Her last tweet: “I light a candle for each person I miss on X mass eve and NYE and have a little chat to them. They hear us;)”

She was 30 and Oscar is 26. They were seen for the first time together at the South African Sports Awards in 2012. Oscar is cooling his heels in detention. He will be charged on Tuesday.

“Ke Jis zalim ne tarpaya usee pa mujhko pyar aya”