[ 2015-12-11 ]

Caster Semenya and partner

Caster Semenya marries fellow woman
South African 800m athlete, Caster Semenya, held
her traditional wedding ceremony over the weekend,
says Sport24.

According to South Africa’s Limpopo Media,
Semenya and her long-time girlfriend, Violet
Raseboya, had their traditional wedding ceremony
in Ga-Dikgale in the Capricorn District of
Limpopo.

Media reports claim Semenya and Raseboya got
engaged in May 2014.

Semenya was, however, quick to dismiss those
reports, saying: “There is no wedding. Don’t
believe the rumours you read in the news.”

The Daily Sun nonetheless reported that the
24-year-old sent her parents to Raseboya’s
family in Polokwane to negotiate lobola (dowry).

An insider revealed at the time that both families
were happy to negotiate lobola. Semenya’s family
paid R25 000 (Ksh174, 325).

Semenya first shot to stardom in 2009 when she won
gold in the women’s 800m at the IAAF’s World
Championships in Berlin, before being
controversially subjected to gender testing.

She was cleared and won the silver medal at the
2011 World Championship in Daegu.

Semenya’s greatest achievement to date was a
silver medal in the 800m at the 2012 London
Olympics.

Social media posted numerous pictures of the happy
couple on Monday, December 7

Source - Citizen TV

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