Four days after she posted that message, neither did she.
The 29-year-old model was shot dead by her boyfriend at his house in Pretoria. She died on Valentine’s Day last year.
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Her boyfriend, Olympian Oscar Pistorius, 27, has been convicted of culpable homicide, the South African term for unintentionally — but unlawfully — killing a person. He was also found guilty of one gun charge in an unrelated shooting at a restaurant.
Pistorius has admitted to shooting Steenkamp but says he mistook her for an intruder.
The judge ruled that he’ll serve a maximum five-year prison term for the killing, to run concurrently with a three-year sentence — suspended for five years — on the gun charge.
Beauty and brains
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Booysen, 17, was raped and mutilated in South Africa in February 2013, putting a spotlight on violence against women in the nation.
Steenkamp urged her followers on Twitter to wear black the day after Valentine’s to protest violence against women.
A tragic end on Valentine’s
Steenkamp was looking forward to Valentine’s Day.
“What do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow?” she asked her Twitter followers the day before. “Get excited.”
At dawn, she lay dead in a pool of blood.
