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Authors: June Steenkamp

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We were incredibly proud of Reeva getting her Law degree – she made a stunning graduate, here with fellow student, Angus Hayes

 

A photo from the beautiful wedding shoot on Summerstrand beach, taken when Reeva was only fifteen and where her ashes are now scattered

 

Reeva’s teenage paintings that now seem so prophetic

 

Reeva’s first
FHM
cover – another proud moment for us all
© Nick Boulton

 

Reeva’s modelling was going from strength to strength. Above, a beauty shoot in 2004; below, in a campaign for Pallu evening dresses
© Nick Boulton, © Merwelene Van Der Merwe

 

Reeva with Abby at her family farm in December 2010, drinking champagne and fruit juice. This is the last Christmas they spent together.

 

With other dear friends, Kristin and Beatrix on New Years Eve, 2012, when she was looking after the house in Johannesburg. Whatever was going on in her life, Reeva always stayed close to her friends

 

Reeva with the cake she baked at the BBC Lifestyle launch of ‘Bake-Off’ in South Africa
© Gallo Images/REX

 

On her visit to the Kitty and Puppy Haven in Johannesburg in January 2013
© Gallo Images/Getty Images

 

Reeva and Oscar on their first date together at the South African Sports Awards 2012
© Gallo Images/Getty Images

 

Together again in January 2013, just before her death
© AFP/Stringer/Getty Images

 

Arriving in court with Dup, our advocate. The media frenzy around the trial was unlike anything I’d ever experienced before
© Jordi Matas/Demotix/Press Association Images

 

With Barry at the trial
© Herman Verwey/AP/Press Association Images

 

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