Caster signs books at Waterfront

Warm applause greeted Mokgadi Caster Semenya when she entered the amphitheatre at the V&A Waterfront on Thursday November 23. Born in a rural village in Limpopo, the 32-year-old middle-distance runner and winner of two Olympic gold medals and three world championships in the women’s 800 metres is on a whirlwind tour to promote her book The Race to Be Myself. In conversation with Khaya Dlanga, author of These Things Really do Happen To Me and To Quote Myself, which was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize, Semenya spoke openly about her “differentness”, her fight to be herself and her fight for human rights. After the talk, she signed books at Exclusive Books.