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Let Caster be

GIVE Caster Semenya room to breathe and savour her success.

GIVE Caster Semenya room to breathe and savour her success.

The granddaughter of Sekhukhune and Moloto has shown that she is brave and has the grit to slay her enemies. She never wavered in her determination to bring glory to herself and her homeland.

Caster is a young woman in her first step into the limelight, but she is not being allowed to enjoy her talent. She has been reduced to a prop in her grand homecoming by agencies who have usurped her triumph.

She was vilified in Germany in the worst way a woman can be. At home she has become a pawn in other people's grandstanding feats.

The youth league in her village and the municipality are fighting over who should have the right to throw her a party.

Stop the speeches, embrace her and let her enjoy her day in the sun. Give her the gift to be normal in her homeland.

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