{"id":895,"date":"2009-08-31T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.africanews.it\/english\/?p=895"},"modified":"2009-08-31T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T12:21:00","slug":"south-africa-people-await-their-gender-medallist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/south-africa-people-await-their-gender-medallist\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: people await their gender medallist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a big time for miss <strong>Caster Semenya<\/strong> in the 2009 Berlin athletic Championship.<\/p>\n<p>For the International Amateur Athletic Federation, however, her <strong>gender identity<\/strong> needed to be tested. A move many South Africans do not welcome for anything.<\/p>\n<p>Some have cried foul for <strong>discrimination<\/strong> against the athlete.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As reported by the Associate Press on Friday, \u201c<strong>Butana Komphela<\/strong>, chairman of a parliamentary sports committee, cited both <strong>sexism<\/strong> and <strong>racism<\/strong> in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The South African Press Association quoted him as saying Friday that his committee would soon lodge a complaint with the U.N. Commissioner of Human Rights asking for an <strong>investigation<\/strong> into the IAAF&#8217;s &#8220;gross and severe undermining&#8221; of Semenya&#8217;s rights and privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The IAAF has already commenced the test. The question about her gender aroused mainly because of her <strong>deep voice<\/strong>, <strong>muscular<\/strong> <strong>body<\/strong> build and her <strong>astonishing performance<\/strong> in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of her return from Europe on Tuesday, South Africans are planning a <strong>big rally<\/strong> to <strong>welcome<\/strong> home their medallist, who brought them an honour.<\/p>\n<p>President Jacob <strong>Zuma<\/strong> is planning a <strong>personal meeting<\/strong> with her and two other South African medallists at the presidential guest house, Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>All these are to <strong>serve<\/strong> as a <strong>moral boost<\/strong> to the young lady and an assurance that the government and people of South Africa are strongly behind her in the days ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ewanfoh Obehi Peter<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=640\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a big time for miss Caster Semenya in the 2009 Berlin athletic Championship. For the International Amateur Athletic Federation, however, her gender identity needed to be tested. A move many South Africans do not welcome for anything. Some have cried foul for discrimination against the athlete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}