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The African National Congress Youth League is fully behind the International Athletics Associations Federation (IAAF) World Championships Gold Medallist, Caster Semenya amidst the malicious rumour of a medical report from the IAAF. The ANC YL has interacted with Athletics South Africa and established that there was never a legitimate test conducted on Caster Semenya and all basic principles of medical tests are grossly violated.

The ANC YL calls on the IAAF to distance itself from the Australian Media reports, and in line with basic medical ethics illegitimate any test done on Caster Semenya without her concern. Even if a test is done, the ANC YL will never accept the categorisation of Caster Semenya as a hermaphrodite, because in South Africa and the entire world of sanity, such does not exist. The basic, traditional and known method to determine gender has classified Caster Semenya as female and to us she will remain a female.

The ANC YL is also very concerned by the fact that all the media reports about Caster Semenya are generated in Australia, which is the most lucrative destination for South Africa's racists and fascists, who refused to live under a black democratic government. The maltreatment of Caster Semenya is evidently a coordinated racist attack on Caster Semenya, an African woman whom the racists never thought will represent South Africa will excellence.

Mokgadi Semenya is our girl and the ANC YL will be convening the prize money handover ceremony to celebrate her before the end of September 2009. There is no one who is going to take the Gold Medal and honour from Caster Semenya for any reason.

Issued by the African National Congress Youth League
Contact Floyd Shivambu, ANC YL National Spokesperson