Pretoria: Paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s premeditated murder case has been transferred to the High Court in Pretoria, and his trial is set to start on 3 March 2014.

This emerged during his brief appearance in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

Prosecutor Gerrie Nel said his team has prepared an indictment and the case was ready to be transferred to the high court.

Pistorius is accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on 14 February at his home in the east of Pretoria.

It would have been Steenkamp’s 30th birthday today.