Slain Steenkamp’s mother delivers daughter’s speech

The mother of Oscar Pistorius’ slain girlfriend has delivered the speech her daughter wrote and had planned to give at a South African school on the day she was killed by the Olympic athlete.

June Steenkamp went back to Reeva Steenkamp’s old high school in their home town of Port Elizabeth to talk to students, and read directly from the speech that touched on domestic abuse, family relationships, and even Reeva Steenkamp’s struggles to break into the modelling industry because she wasn’t very tall.

“I will now carry on where she left off,” June Steenkamp told students before reading excerpts of the speech her daughter had prepared for a visit to a Johannesburg school on Valentine’s Day 2013.