this is the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the battle continues south africa's golden child cost us a man you know isn't ports this week she is fighting for her right to compete without medication. plus the fisherman tackling lead invasion on lake victoria but fish stalks canyons tend to chinese imports. and bob is only leaves if you want to hop it. well don't worry these stylish lookin bob

is all new in the compost of your home. michael jr welcome to did all the news africa great to have you with us gold medal winning south african run our cost us a man is in court this week trying to face down the lead to its governing body the . rules that would force athletes like cement not to reduce the outside still strong levels that south african governments are still in its weight behind the athlete. in a case and launching a social media campaign on the hostile naturally superior the landmark case has divided opinion. caster semenya name and athletic scale have polarized the world of sports in the aspect. kate she is hyper androgenic that

means her body naturally produces high levels of testosterone but the i don't really have want athletes like her to take drugs to lower their testosterone levels in order to compete in middle distance track events testosterone they argue gifts to many an unfair advantage the core value for the empowerment of girls and women through the regulations that we are introducing to protect the sanctity. of fair and open competition nights really what we're here to defend symon your first game global prominence in two thousand and nine at the world championships in berlin she won gold in the eight hundred meter as some in his legal team says the signs the i.w. has put forward to support its root changes is flawed and discriminatory that higher testosterone levels do not necessarily prove a competitive advantage some

a cadet makes have also criticized the research and they question why don't you apply to middle distance track events. back home in south africa so many it is known as the golden corral media reports say that the government is investing around two million dollars into a court case to many a supporters say there's more at stake than just the right to participate in a sport. we men's bodies they are where. they have their identity their privacy their sense of safety and learning in the way of being questioned i cement his legal team says unless reasonable scientific evidence is presented the rule be nothing more than an arbitrary decision the idea of only f. claims it's simply pushing for a level playing field. i to delve more into this we're joined by someone some a close friend. of direct talks sports university. told me

thanks for joining us first things first how is doing. cast as a very confident person and i think that she's approaching this in a in a mature manner. she's very confident because with all due respect she's done nothing wrong she's a human being that is trying to apply outright and what are the strengths that she does have is a lot of self-confidence that has been born about what has happened to in the past . now she is seeking to about ten regulations restricting testosterone levels in a woman before they come to speeds in the sports now how do you think she's going to argue this case well i think if you go back to the previous case in two thousand and nine when she was originally tasted and didn't participate in two july two

thousand and ten we put together a group of specialists eleven of them in fact that actually proved to the odd eveleigh if the levels of testosterone were on the ten was the level of risk that was sent and we proved it to them in turkey and that was the accepted norm in twenty teams while all of a sudden do you go and talk at any three veins in four hundred eight hundred and fifteen hundred when in two thousand and ten the level was of approved with medical team x. ten and now they've evolved to five so you know for me this up in wa why only three events. an interesting one that you see you smell or ott. well i think you know i just think that people are talking in custom and i think it's totally unfair and you know what is amazing for me is no one has actually

edged come out and said that custer has yet to break the eight hundred meter world record but yet they targeting and say she's unfair advantage so what's unfair advantage of she hasn't broken the record yet. i mean the fact though is that because it's claimed that she has high levels of testosterone that gives a a bit of an advantage over other women that do not have that don't you agree with that point not necessarily i don't believe i mean if you have a look at in other sports as well true and you look at shaquille o'neal you look michael jordan are you saying that they hot advantage should have been something that stopped him from playing basketball. interest in question i guess the other one. yeah it's a different question altogether but i mean i just believe that if you if you already proven something it's been accepted that that is the norm wow all of

a sudden go back and not say we have to solve it but we're only going to have it for these particular events. for me sorry i just don't buy it ok and what's what is they are it's ok so what does this all mean for. and indeed the future of the sports whatever the outcome of the court cases. well i think it is a serious implication you know this is the first of two cases one is the order of operations and the other one is direct with audible a if. the scary thing for me is that if this thing should go against us you can't just take people away from participating in sport. you know you taking away the rocks to live almost in the rocket in a living and for me that is totally unfair ok toby sutcliffe director of talk sports university of pretoria i thank you very much for your time. now kenyan

fisherman on lake victoria have been struggling with an enemy of a peculiar kind this weed invasion that has kept them from reaching the deep waters of the lake as a result they are struggling to meet demand the fish shortage has forced the kenyan government to revise the ban on fish imports from china. next piled into the wooden boats these fishermen are ready to set sail for a night. but once again kissimmee bay is cloaked with a thick green carpet of water hyacinth blocking the fishermen from reaching the deep waters to fish. we're suffering because we're not able to get food. you and if we don't go fishing ground we lose a lot. to not cause the me we. want to hyacinth is a floating across it plants native to south america its spread abroad and is

believed to have first reached lake victoria and the one nine hundred ninety s. floating down the lakes west and tributary that. since then it has caused serious difficulties for fishing boats and other vessels unlike toria. what we're doing you know not to many of our colleagues have had problems while fishing on the lake and they sometimes get stuck so recently some fishermen got stuck on the lake and the kenyan government had to send a helicopter to rescue them. by the end up what. lake victoria is shared with tanzania and uganda on the kenyan side alone hyacinth covers roughly five percent of the water surface the plans affect fish reproduction and the fishermen a struggling to fill their nets live. with these. with the more you put out some weed see the good. for you to force people to bring you home so much and some people did you see you go through the mind of these with guys

with the supply. at the market in the city of kisumu the gap between local demand and the lake supply is filled by frozen tilapia fillets imported from china after kenya's president banned the imports last year a shortage of fish has now forced the government to lift the restrictions it's clear kenya's appetite for fish is not going away. now and care about our look stones we are male grooming is a growing industry and in ghana a new business venture is making the most of bats trend they've set up a mobile barber service looking after clients in the confines of their own home. customer has it's good sitting. he gets his head treatment leaving him free to make calls listen to jazz we even enjoy dream it's all part of

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