South Africa

Can anyone really know what it must be like for eighteen year old Caster Semenya, the South African 800m athlete at the centre of the gender row which threatens to tear the country's athletics federation apart.

Yesterday it emerged that Leonard Chuene the President of Athletics South Africa had been economical with the truth when he claimed that Caster Semenya had never undergone any tests and there'd never been any questions about whether she was male or female.

But all that changed yesterday when a series of leaked e-mails forced Mr. Chuene into justifying his lies.

Well now Caster Semenya is at the centre of a storm which some argue could have been prevented.

Results of tests to determine whether she is indeed male or female and if she should run as a woman will be due in November.

Well someone who wishes all this were happening away from the public gaze is Sally Gross, founder of an organisation called Intersex South Africa.

She is herself intersexed.

On the line to Johannesburg, Bola Mosuro started by asking what exactly being intersexed is.