Quietly enjoy the Daily Maverick completely ripping to pieces Oscar Pistorius’ claims under oath,  about that boating accident he had on ‘the Vaal.’

Here’s an excerpt:

In an interview with Britain’s Daily Mirror in April 2009, he said: “It is a narrow river and a lot of the jetties are old and don’t have flotation devices so when the water level is high, as it was that day, they are submerged.”

“We weren’t going too quickly, probably no more than 30 kph (18mph) but we hit a pier that was under the water and I was thrown hard onto the steering wheel.”

Two boat-operators on the Vaal rubbished this notion when Pistorius’ explanation was put to them by the Daily Maverick this week. One said that the jetty was “relatively new” at the time of the accident. Another said that the idea that the jetty was submerged by high water levels was “impossible”, as this would have meant that a major flooding incident would have had to have taken place.

AND SOME MORE..

Pistorius’ claim under oath, then, was that the accident happened because sun on the water impaired his vision.

That is not the interpretation of events told to the Daily Maverick by Michael Aitken, a property-owner on the Vaal River who arrived on the scene of the accident shortly after it happened.

“I heard [Pistorius] use the story [on the stand] almost in mitigation, and he started off with a lie, that the sun was in his eyes,” Aitken told the Daily Maverick. “It made me mad.”

Read the whole article at Daily Maverick here.