"Mokgadi Caster Semenya is at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. She is there to appeal against a misogynistic, patriarchal ruling which would not only humiliate her but take away her dignity.
It would be naive to think that Semenya's saga is a purely medical issue. In fact, it is not Semenya's biological make up which is on trial but the black women's body.
This trial is the manifestation of what slavery, colonialism and apartheid has always been towards the black body; it is especially vicious when it deals with the black body."
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