The family of Oscar Pistorius has been caught up in a public row over whether guns are a necessary protection against crime in South Africa.

Tens of thousands of chanting and dancing revellers waved the green and gold colours of the African National Congress as Africa’s oldest liberation movement celebrated its 100th anniversary today.

South Africans spread blankets on the lawns of the presidential compound in Pretoria before dawn today as the country prepared to swear in Jacob Zuma with an excitement that recalled Nelson Mandela’s 1994 inauguration.

WINNIE Madikizela-Mandela has long been South Africa’s larger-than-life apartheid heroine, dubbed the “Mother of the Nation.”