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Has media glare caused Semenya to run away?
Cape Town :: South Africa | 12 days ago
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It made her momentarily a kind of latter-day circus freak, like the moustached woman: dwelled on, gawked at, even moralised upon. Australia was peripherally implicated because it was a Sydney newspaper that first reported the leaked results of her tests...
Tags: Semenya, Athletics South Africa, Ariel Levy, Berlin, levy reported, Leonard Chuene, south african, South Africa, Cape Town, Gender verification in sports, Caster Semenya, Gender, Intersexuality, South Africa under apartheid, Julius Malema
Caster Diva - an Operatic Saga of Mismanagement, Sport, and Lies.
For several weeks now the Caster Semenya debacle has made front-page headlines. Originally, those of us who are proud South Africans patted ourselves on the back for having notched up yet one more sporting medal. But then the storm broke: it seemed that...
U.N. assembly votes for more powerful women's agency
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility General Assembly voted on Monday to create a new, more powerful agency for women, in a move supporters hailed as a breakthrough for women's equality and rights. An assembly resolution called for the amalgamation of four existing U.N. offices dealing...
Tags: UN General Assembly, U.N., Semenya, New York City
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Needless to say, and in my personal opinion a fair comment is that South Africa reacted angrily today to world champion runner Miss. Caster Semenya's test results that found she was a hermaphrodite – Outspoken South African sports minister Makhenkesi...
Tags: Caster Semenya, hermaphrodite, intersex issues, Wilfred Daniels, Caster Semenyas, Helen Anne Petrie (1932-2006), Apartheid, Anti-Apartheid, Madiba, ANC, South African, Secretary General, Jacob Zuma, Semenya, Pierre Weiss, Australian, IAAF, American Medical Association, Olympics, chromosome, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Semenya Ban Would Start World War III: South Africa
South Africa’s sports minister threatened “the third world war” if Caster Semenya is barred from competing in women’s sporting events because of the results of a sex test, the BBC reports. Such a decision “would be totally...
Tags: Semenya, World War, South Africa, Olympics
Semenya Has Male, Female Sex Organs
SYDNEY (AP) - World 800-meter champion Caster Semenya of South Africa has male and female sexual organs, the Sydney Morning Herald said on Friday, posing an ethical and political quandary for athletics' ruling body. Semenya's reported condition...
Tags: Semenya, sex organs, male, female
Mercury, South Africa: Malema enters Semenya controversy
Durban :: South Africa | 3 months ago
Credibility Semenya is racist and sexist and we must not allow them to do it,' said the African National Congress Youth League leader...Calls for Semenya to be tested were made because she was black and because she had surpassed her European competitors, said Malema.
Tags: Julius Malema, Semenya
IAAF says 'PROVE' you're a female...
Although her passport says she's female, the IAAF (International Amateur Athletics Foundation) has decided that 18 year old Semenya from South Africa, who recently won the Women's World 800 meter title with a run of 55.45 seconds (2 seconds faster than...
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