Look South Column

Give the gift of dignity, not column inches

“Caster Semenya takes silver in the 800m” by ciamabue is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

One of the sad realities of the world is that, once a newspaper story breaks, it is impossible to stop its spread. The story of 18-year-old South African athlete Caster Semenya is a case in point.

As everyone on the planet now knows, Semenya is at the centre of a global row about whether she is, theoretically, a man or a woman. The…