critical theory with slavoj zizek: Jacqueline Rose pointed out how Pistorius’s killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp has to be read against both the complex background of white men’s fear of black violence and the terrible reality of widespread violence against women: ‘Every four minutes in South Africa a woman or a girl – often a teenager, sometimes a child – is reported raped and every eight hours a woman is killed by her partner. The phenomenon has a name in South Africa: “intimate femicide”, or, as the journalist and crime writer Margie Orford calls the repeated killing of women across the country, “serial femicide”.’ This violence against women should in no way be dismissed as marginal.