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Mother of Pistorius' girlfriend gives speech her daughter had planned on day she was killed

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June Steenkamp, the mother of the late Reeva Steenkamp who was shot dead by her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius in 2013, delivers a lecture on women abuse to students at Saint Dominic's school in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, where Reeve attended. Pistorius was released from prison into house arrest Monday Oct. 19, 2015, after serving one year out of five for the culpable homicide death of Reeva Steenkamp in Feb. 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sheehan) (The Associated Press)

June Steenkamp, the mother of the late Reeva Steenkamp who was shot dead by her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius in 2013, delivers a lecture on women abuse to students at Saint Dominic's school in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, where Reeve attended. Pistorius was released from prison into house arrest Monday Oct. 19, 2015, after serving one year out of five for the culpable homicide death of Reeva Steenkamp in Feb. 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sheehan) (The Associated Press)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 file photo a mourner holds a funeral program with a portrait of Reeva Steenkamp, the late girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam-file) (The Associated Press)

June Steenkamp has delivered the speech her daughter Reeva had planned to give at a South African school on the day she was killed by Oscar Pistorius.

June Steenkamp went back to Reeva's old high school in their home town of Port Elizabeth on Wednesday to talk to students.

She said "I will now carry on where she left off," before reading excerpts of the speech Reeva Steenkamp planned to give at a Johannesburg school on Valentine's Day 2013.

Pistorius fatally shot his girlfriend in the pre-dawn hours of that day. The Olympic athlete was released from jail Monday and moved to house arrest after serving a year of his five-year manslaughter sentence.

Responding to students' questions, June Steenkamp said of Pistorius: "I've got no feelings of revenge."