Oscar Pistorious, Murderball. Anyone?

Yesterday (15/10/15) a parole board in South Africa overturned a decision by Justice Minister Michael Masutha and finally released Oscar Pistorious from prison. This is a saga that dates back to Rihanna's 2013 Diamonds World Tour.

After deciding to include South Africa on that tour the ruling African National Congress (ANC) set up the Oscar Pistorious case. The intention being that the debate over whether or not he was a domestic abuser, whether he had murdered his girlfriend and whether or not he should go to prison would serve as a metaphor for the US' attempts to reunite Rihanna with Chris Brown.

At around the time those 13 South African soldiers were killed in the Central African Republic (CAR) a lot of people started thinking that the ANC had made a huge mistake not only by putting on the Pistorious case but simply by inviting Rihanna over in the first place.

It was at this point that pro-ANC demonstrators took to the streets demanding that Pistorious be convicted and he stopped being a metaphor for Chris Brown and started being a metaphor for me.

While the Pistorious case was reaching it's conclusion the South Africa was also being forced by the UK to drop the Shrien Dewani murder case.

Rather then admitting they'd been forced to drop the Dewani case the ANC doubled down on the Pistorious case demanding that he be given a longer sentence and he be re-tried for murder. The intention being to convince ANC supporters that Zuma doesn't allow rich people to buy their way out of justice.

Last Friday (9/10/15) the UK Crown announced that it would be declining to open a Coroner's Inquest in the Dewani case meaning that South Africa's say on the matter was final. No matter how controversial that may be.

On Wednesday (14/10/15) a temporary bridge collapsed onto a road in Johannesburg, South Africa killing two.

The state of South Africa's roads have long been an obsession for white South Africans of the apartheid era - many of whom now live in the UK. They seem to view every pothole as a sign that the country is on the brink of collapse due to black majority rule.

Mind you South Africa's President Jacob Zuma's constant claims that the nations current electricity crisis is the result of "colonialism" is starting to wear a bit thin.

Also the over-land supply route that the US-led coalition needs to establish between Kurdish areas of Iraq and Syria could be described as; "A Temporary Road Bridge."

As such the initial delay and the eventual announcement of Oscar Pistorious' release was intended to fit into this narrative about race ahead of South Africa's Rugby World Cup quarter-final against, oh wait ... hang on.

Despite the fact their rugby team were knocked out by Wales the English still want to be the belle of the ball so now we've got lots of stories about hidden treasures being found in graveyards and South Africans, Australians and Romanians being caught passing rugby ball shaped babies around in the Cardiff, Wales.

Also in the past week it was announced that Oscar Pistorious' former home is to be turned into a venue for dance parties. In a joke I've totally just worked out.

As for the Para-Olympic sport of Murderball it's only real connection to the game of rugby is that it's what a lot of former rugby players end up doing after a spear tackle or a scrum collapse.

15:35 on 16/10/15 (UK date).