ANC MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela told the briefing nobody would be allowed to conduct a gender test on Semenya as the controversial sports-person was also thanked with R60 000 cheque.
"They can stuff their insults, this is our little girl and nobody is going to perform any test on her."
No concerns had been raised at previous competitions about Caster Semenya’s gender, Athletics SA president Leonard Chuene said on Tuesday.
"We are not going to allow Europeans to describe and define our child... we will define our child," he told a press briefing at OR Tambo International airport. Sowetan
Semenya had been "traumatised" by the "international hostile media".
The 18-year-old runner did not address the briefing and sat alongside fellow gold-medal winner Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and silver medallist Khotso Mokoena, along with ANC MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and ANC Youth League president Julius Malema.
Malema announced that the league was giving Semenya R60,000 to "relax".
Mulaudzi, who won gold for winning the 800m race at the International Amateur Athletics Federation’s World Championships in Berlin would get R40,000 from the league. Long jump silver medallist Mokoena would get R25,000.
In a statement the league said it would start a "vigorous campaign" to demand an unconditional apology from international athletics body, the IAAF, and those it claimed were responsible for "attempts to humiliate" Semenya.
The International Association of Athletics Federations announced last week that Semenya would have to undergo a series of gender verification tests.
Semenya won the 800m in 1 minute 55.45 seconds, the world’s best this year. - Sapa
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