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Oscar Pistorius, stripped of South African hero: why his parents chose to amputate
Oscar Pistorius is the story of the mad competitive nature in the Olympic games is the story of a meteoric rise, the history of the controversial role of the media. This is the story, too, of a young democracy, South Africa. This is the story of a murder, and a love story. And finally it is the story of Oscar Pistorius himself, this child had both legs amputated at the age of 11 months, which runs alongside the fastest men in the world, whose life is tragic, Shakespearean, whatever the outcome of his trial. From "Oscar Pistorius," John Carlin, published by Seuil (1/2).
Oscar Pistorius was born on 22 November 1986 with fibular hemimelia, that is to say without fibulas. As mysterious as rare, this bone malformation had no known genetic link with parents. His legs unusually short, had therefore no fibula, the long bone that connects the end and knee and ankle parallel to the shin. His ankles were only half-formed; heels, instead of facing down, were on the side; the arches were not convex but concave, they did not have the form of an arch, but that of a ship's hull; and he had two toes instead of five.
His parents, devastated, immediately understood that he could never stand, let alone walk on feet also atrophied and deformed. His mother, Sheila Pistorius, born Sheila Bekker, bears a surname rather common among some 40% of white South African population who defined themselves as English speakers, in a country where everyone feels compelled to historically find a tribal affiliation. Sheila was a housewife. Henke Pistorius, her husband, was a businessman. Rather badly organized, it had its ups and downs, but the birth of Oscar, he was doing well, allowing the family to live in the typical white material comfort and well-off middle classes of the South Africa of apartheid. They lived in a large house in the hills of Constantia Kloof, a rich and vibrant suburb of Johannesburg, about sixty kilometers from Pretoria, the capital of the country.
Henke was an Afrikaner, the white majority in South Africa which is expressed in a language derived from the Dutch spoken by settlers who settled at the Cape in the seventeenth century. Henke was proud of the history of his people. He liked guns, like many Afrikaners and not reluctant to make solemn declarations in front of his Calvinist god. A key moment in the Afrikaner history, as any child of this community was learning in school, was the wish of the Day, which commemorates the victory of the Boers against the Zulus, December 16, 1838, during the Great Trek. That day, the Boer people who had left for Cape Town to win the inland révulsées among others by the decision of the British colonial authorities had taken to abolish slavery, had to face clashes of rare violence against a real contingent of Zulu warriors. Far fewer than their opponents, migrants vowed that if God helped them win the battle, they and their descendants would honor this day forever, and would make it a holy day. Four hundred and seventy Boers armed with pistols and rifles routed a Zulu army of ten thousand armed only with spears.
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