Journalists preparing for day three
Journalists were running extension cords to power their mobile devices and sorting out technical problems before the start of Oscar Pistorius's third day on trial for murder on Wednesday.
One man climbed up the bars of the heavy iron gate used to secure the front entrance of the High Court in Pretoria.
He used duct tape to secure a mini camera to the bars, in the hope of snapping footage of Pistorius arriving at court without being crushed in the melee.
Another stood on a concrete dustbin, arranging his camera on the roof of the bus stop outside the court so that it faced the entrance.
Inside the court, one journalist, on the phone to a colleague, speculated there would be a lot of "aggravated questions" from Barry Roux, SC, for Pistorius, to the "fit, slim" State witness Charl Johnson, who started testifying on Tuesday.
Johnson is married to Michelle Burger, who was the State's first witness.
The State will try to prove that Pistorius committed premeditated murder when he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through the toilet door in his Pretoria townhouse on February 14 last year.
In addition he is charged with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition, and recklessly discharging a firearm in public.
Pistorius contends he mistook her for an intruder when he shot through the door.
- Sapa