Oscar Pistorius trial-what's your verdict?

It was announced today at the High Court in Pretoria that Paralympics champion and first amputee to win an able-bodied world track medal, Oscar Pistorius, was to receive a 5 year sentence for the killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The Olympic runner was convicted of culpable homicide, or negligent killing, but acquitted for murder in February 2013.

Pistorius in court

So what's your verdict on this case? Most of us are shocked that Pistorius will only receive a five-year sentence for taking another person's life (whether it be intentional or unintentional). On the Irish Times website it stated that Pistorius’ defence lawyer Barry Roux said he expected the jailed athlete to serve only 10 months of the five-year sentence behind bars, and the remainder under house arrest. Does this really seem like a fair sentence? 
Do you think there has been allowances made for the athlete, due to his success in the 2012 Olympics or Paralympics? Or are his claims of self-defence, believing there was an intruder in his home, justified? 

Another argument is the attitude towards violence against women in South Africa. Delving deeper into the background of criminal cases in South Africa, it is alarming to see the difference between the sentencing for violence against women there than in a 1st world country. The Huffington Post documented in August 2013 that South Africa had the highest rate of violence against women in the world. "If data for all violent assaults, rapes and other sexual assaults against women are taken into account, then approximately 200,000 adult women are reported as being attacked in South Africa every year," Lerato Moloi of the South African Institute for Race Relations said. The real figure is considerably higher, she said, since most cases are never reported. 

So what's your verdict on the case? Do you think if Pistorius lived in another part of the world that his sentence would be harsher? Or do you think that the South African judicial system should have made an example out of the case in order to protect women's rights and given him a stricter sentence? Feel free to comment on your opinions below.

Lots of love,
Siun X