Dear Editor,
Caster Semenya is treated as if she has no life of her own.
She must be feeling cheated of what she’s interested in doing; that is being an athlete. Politicians, bored business people, so-called sports commentators and every Pierre, Paul and Jacques has had an opinion, usually misinformed.
Caster’s private life has become a facade even to launch and to advance political careers. It is moral smugness and lack of respect for Caster’s personal dignity to continue selling newspapers by sensationalising her private life.
The media is in fact the prime offender in perpetuating an assault on her dignity. Her private life is vandalised and cruelly deride daily by the media with no restraint.
On Thursday, The Sport and Recreation Minister Makhenkesi Stofile, in his closing remarks during the address to the media on the Caster matter captured it forcefully... "We urge all South Africans and other people to respect this professional, ethical and moral way of doing things”.
What the Minister is saying is a very noble thing: If you have had anything to say to Chuene, ASA or IAAF, even to the supreme SASCOC, please from now on keep it to yourself, especially if it has anything to do with Caster.
Please cut Caster out of this gobbledygook and give her space to live her own live. We have to assist Caster to hold on to her energy and talent by just keeping away from her. It might not be sentimental and insipid to write only about her training programme, her studies and academic aspirations, but that’s exactly what must happen from now on.
This must be stopped.
Vusi Kekana
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