SA threatens 'war' over Semenya

[Shola]

SA threatens 'war' over Semenya
Caster Semenya

Semenya gender test row intensifies

South African officials have stepped up their defence of Caster Semenya, warning of a "third world war" if the row over her sex stops her competing.

The 18-year-old 800m world champion has had medical tests following doubts about whether she is actually female.

South Africa's sports minister, the Reverend Makhenkesi Stofile, said: "Caster is a woman, she remains our heroine. We must protect her."

BBC Sport understands tests are likely to show Semenya has an intersex status.

That means that although she has been brought up as a girl and lives as a woman, she may prove to have both male and female sex characteristics.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/8249948.stm

[Islandman]

I love the ANC and we all know thier place in SA history is legendary, but bwoy their leaders are developing a habit of coming across as some science dunces.

First Mbeki say HIV nuh cause AIDS, then, then the current leader say him tek a shower after sex so him couldn't ketch nutten from the girl, and now them insisting this unfortunate teen should be able to compete with women.

[Hortical]

Their response to the AIDS pandemic was &%$# criminal. Due to government inaction it is estimate over 1,000 people die everyday from AIDS, and over 5 million people are infected with the disease. Several countries in Africa have actually reduced the rate of HIV infection, but South Africa has set itself back a generation.