Latest articles on Caster Semenya Gender Row

‘I’m targeted because I’m undefeated’ — Caster

Article Michelle Gumede - 15 Aug 2019

The 28 year-old has been embroiled in a bitter legal battle with the IAAF over rules that force female athletes to regulate their testosterone levels

What we talk about when we talk about Caster Semenya

Article Lindokuhle Nkosi - 12 Aug 2019

Semenya's fight tells us much about how the world sees black women, especially as they compete for gold.

Caster to appeal CAS ruling

Article Aaisha Dadi Patel - 29 May 2019

The Olympic gold medallist will appeal the ruling which is set to bar her from participating without artificially reducing her testosterone levels

Athletics SA appeal Semenya judgment

Article Luke Feltham - 13 May 2019

The next chapter in the prolonged battle to secure the professional future of Caster Semenya is about to be written

Semenya verdict ‘beyond absurd’

Article Luke Feltham - 3 May 2019

The rejection of her appeal flirts with scientific facts, leaving room for ambiguity

Caster’s fate to be announced by sports body on Wednesday

Article Agency - 29 Apr 2019

IAAF to rule whether naturally occurring higher testosterone of Olympic champion is legal

Meet the experts who will determine Semenya’s fate

Article Luke Feltham & Mashadi Kekana - 19 Feb 2019

We take a look at some of the experts who will be called up in Caster Semenya’s case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport

Semenya’s lawyers slam IAAF for ‘confidentiality breach’

Article Luke Feltham - 18 Feb 2019

Earlier on Monday, the IAAF published on its website the names of those who it hopes will justify the need for the new rules in female competition

Caster Semenya case kicks off

Article Luke Feltham - 18 Feb 2019

Semenya is fighting regulations that would require her to lower her testosterone levels artificially

Navaratilova backs Semenya ahead of IAAF gender rule hearing

Article Agency - 17 Feb 2019

The tennis great has come to the defence of champion Caster Semenya ahead of next week's landmark hearing

IAAF ‘expects’ CAS to reject Caster’s appeal case

Article Agency - 17 Oct 2018

If Semenya's appeal is dismissed, she would be ineligible for the entire circuit of top-tier Diamond League meetings, which run from May to September

Caster Semenya’s body is being claimed by self-important armchair pundits

Article Carl Collison - 19 Aug 2016

'Her body, seen as an anomaly, is no longer hers. It “belongs” to sports bodies, media houses and quick-on-the-draw armchair pundits ... '

#HandsOffCaster: South Africans spring to defence of the athletic superstar

Article Ofentse Mboweni - 13 Aug 2016

The athlete is just days away from competing in the Rio Olympic Games' 800m event and the controversy surrounding her continues to rumble.

ASA mentor fights Semenya fallout

Article Staff Reporter - 12 Sep 2013

A doyenne of South African athletics is caught up in a David and  Goliath battle over the ASA's 2009 Caster Semenya debacle.

Is measuring an athlete’s ‘femaleness’ ever acceptable?

Article Staff Reporter - 15 Jun 2012

Sport is not a level playing field. If some athletes have "better" hormones, then surely that's the same as having better genes, asks Sam Murphy.

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