Sowetan newspaper provides proof that Caster Semenya’s a girl

“People should not mistake her strong voice and her physique for that of a man. She has always been a girl and did everything that girls did,” said Morolong.

SHOOT: Case dismissed?

clipped from www.sowetan.co.za clipped from www.sowetan.co.za Mokgadi Caster Semenya is a girl, and her birth certificate corroborates what her family, friends, neighbours, teachers and fellow pupils have always known. Semenya, who is now the centre of attention after winning gold in 800m at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in Berlin on Wednesday night, was certified a girl at her birth on January 7, 1991. The fracas about her gender has now angered Masetlhong villagers in Moletji outside Polokwane, where Semenya was born and bred. “Caster is a girl and the school has never had doubts about her gender. “To top it all, she is straight and has never entertained issues of lesbianism,” he said. “She used to be a good soccer player, though she was an average pupil in class,” he said, adding that Semenya was a “very talkative” person who is fond of tsotsitaal. “That she is a tomboy does not mean that she is a man,” Modiba said. Her long-time friend Debra Morolong also quashed doubts that Semenya was a man.