The board had convened at a correctional centre in Durban on Friday to reconsider, among other things, Pistorius’s placement on parole.
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The hearing into the legality of the Paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s probation has been postponed for two weeks.
The delay was because the board had been unable to finalize all its cases on Friday, when it had been due to meet to decide if Pistorius should be freed on parole or serve a longer period in jail, local television station ENCA reported.
He was sentenced to five years in prison last October.
Pistorius is now being held in the hospital wing at the Kgosi Mampuru II prison in central Pretoria but if he is released, he is likely to serve to remainder of his sentence under house arrest at his uncle’s mansion home.
Pistorius is having a five-year paragraph for murder his lover Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day couple of years ago.
Pistorius’ case was among those that must still be reviewed. However, South Africa’s justice minister intervened and ordered a review, saying that decision had been made prematurely.
Justice Minister Michael Mashuta’s spokesperson, Mthunzi Mhaga, could not be reached for comment.
Pistorius’ lawyer Barry Roux has said that the former Paralympic athlete’s “financial ability” to pay for another trial would be “non-existent” following the the amount of money he spent on the initial trial.
State prosecutors appealed Judge Thokozile Masipa’s judgment, saying she had misinterpreted the law when she ruled Pistorius did not intentionally shoot Steenkamp.
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Whatever the outcome of the parole decision, the Supreme Court of Appeal will hear the prosecution’s appeal in November.
