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The ANC Youth League and Caster Semenya.

Beware of those basic principles of medical tests! *ANC YL FULLY BEHIND SOUTH AFRICA¹S GOLDEN GIRL MOKGADI CASTER SEMENYA* *11 September 2009* The African National Congress Youth League is fully behind the International Athletics Associations Federation (IAAF) World Championships Gold Medallist, Caster Semenya amidst the malicious rumour of a medical report from the IAAF. The ANC YL has interacted with Athletics South Africa and established that there was never a legitimate test conducted on Caster Semenya and all basic principles of medical tests are grossly violated. The ANC YL calls on the IAAF to distance itself from the Australian Media reports, and in line with basic medical ethics illegitimate any test done on Caster Semenya without her concern. Even if a test is done, the ANC YL will never accept the categorisation of Caster Semenya as a hermaphrodite, because in South Africa and the entire world of sanity, such does not exist. The basic, traditional and known method to determi...