Caster isn’t the cheat in this racist shambles, say SA academics

The leaders of world athletics should be considered cheats for the way they have victimised Caster Semenya, says an article in the latest edition of the SA Medical Journal. (http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/12674)

Safia Mohamed of Unisa and Ames Dhai of Wits University said Semenya’s fight for the right to race “is about all women like her who originate from disadvantaged and mostly poor backgrounds”...

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