“Caster is a woman, she remains our heroine. We must protect her.” – SA Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile.
Tests on 800 metre world champion Caster Semenya are likely to show that she has an “inter gender” condition.
Sydney’s Daily Telegraph say Ms Semenya is a hermaphrodite. (definition here ) Continue reading ‘How do you decide someone’s gender ?’
Thank you from the Newshour team for all your brilliant comments on the United Nations’ sex education guidelines. Saturday’s on air discussion is now over, but we’ve continued to receive many interesting views on whether it’s appropriate to learn about sex at an early age. We appreciate your willingness to delve into what can be a very sensitive topic.
Next week, WHYS will broadcast its first ever programmes from Rwanda.
Madeleine, Claudia, Phil (our engineer) and myself leave on Sunday to present and produce three shows in and around the capital, Kigali.
Here’s a guide to the history of the country, though the events of 1994 will be for many of you, the abiding and most recent impression of Rwanda.
Continue reading ‘Rwanda Have Your Say’
It will change Africa forever. Within the next couple of months four high-speed fibre optic cables will link up the east and west coasts of Africa to the rest of the world. It’s going to revolutionise how the continent connects and communicates in many ways – some we can imagine, some we can’t. Continue reading ‘Africa Connected – the internet revolution’
Apologies to David Bellavia, a guest on Monday’s programme. In a blog post I wrote the following day I quoted him as saying during the programme that photo-journalists “should be Christian first, American second and a photographer third.” Mr Bellavia did not say that, and has told us that he would never ask a photographer to put God or country above his profession.
We apologise for misquoting him and are happy to correct our mistake.
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