QOTD: Was South African TV right to air a reality show featuring Reeva Steenkamp (even with her family’s approval)?

By now you’ve heard the not-at-all surprising news: Another famous, successful male athlete has killed his female intimate partner. Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius is accused to shooting to death Reeva Steenkamp last week, and has been charged with murder.

Here’s the next not-at-all-surprising thing. South African TV network SABC on Saturday night aired an episode of a reality television program featuring Steenkamp, who was a model. From South Africa’s IOL News:

Johannesburg - It was billed as a fitting tribute to “an intelligent, beautiful and amazing woman” but the airing of a Caribbean reality TV show featuring the girlfriend of Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius two days after she was shot dead has upset some South Africans.

In particular, women's rights activists criticised an edited clip at the start of Saturday night's Tropika Island Of Treasure in which law graduate and model Reeva Steenkamp talks about her “exit”.

“I think that the way you go out, not just your journey in life but the way that you go out and you make your exit is so important,” she says, leaning against a palm tree in a pre-recorded interview on the show's set in Jamaica.

At the end of the tribute, presumably recorded when she was voted off the show, she blows kisses to the camera and says: “I'm going to miss you all so much. I love you very, very much.”

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Show producer Samantha Moon said the decision to air the programme on Saturday as scheduled was difficult but ultimately she wanted to share the “special memories” of Steenkamp.

“Reeva was an intelligent, beautiful and amazing woman, and we feel it would be an injustice to keep that unknown from those who did not know her personally,” Moon said.