Our golden girl of athletics, she who was embroiled in  a nasty scandal over her gender and had politicians using her to score points with the public, Caster Semenya, turned 21 recently.

For some reason I wasn’t invited, but thanks to Sunday World, I got to see the pictures. That’s a lot of purple, Caster!

Caster prefers a more tomboyish approach to dressing. Photographer: Elijar Mushiana

Caster and her (we can assume very close) friend, whose name is said to be Asleigh (typo?) Trotter from Botswana. Mzwakhe Mbuli looks horrified. Photographer: Elijar Mushiana

So from this we can deduce the following: Caster likes the colour purple. A lot. Caster’s party dress code was purple, shiny, wedding-like clothing. Caster is tight with a blonde from Botswana (check how they’re eyeing each other. I love my generation, we’re free to love whomever we want. Thank you, freedom fighters!).

Mzwakhe Mbuli – “the people’s poet” – was also there. Um, I understand Caster’s parents being there, but what was such an old guy doing at a party full of young people? Or is he scouting for a side chick?

For the whole slideshow of Caster’s very purple birthday party, check out the Sunday World’s website.