The money was promised to all of South Africa's athletes who won medals at the World Championships in Berlin last month.

Floyd Shivambu, a spokesman for the ANC Youth League, said that Semenya and Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, who won the women and men's 800 metres in the German capital, will receive the money on October 24.

He said: "We are going to have a big festivity for all the athletes that have made us proud."

Khotso Mokoena, who won the silver medal in the long jump at the World Championships, will also receive a cheque. 

Semenya has been at the centre of worldwide controversy since her victory because of doubts over her gender.

Semenya, meanwhile, has found herself unwittingly drawn into a new controversy after a Johannesburg strip club ran a series of billboard advertisments which claimed that their dancers "don't need any gender tests".

Lolly Jackson, the owner of the club called Teazers, claims that they are not a reference to Semenya and was designed to make it clear that the club's employees are "100 per cent woman".
 

An official complaint has been  submitted to the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA).
 

The billboard shows a naked woman, lying in a provocative position on her back, with the wording: "No gender tests necessary" over part of the woman's body.


 

Jackson said: "It has nothing to do with Semenya.

"It was also never intended to have any reference to Semenya.
 

"Long before all of that, I'd started thinking about the ad.

"It just turned out completely different, because the people high up in Athletics South Africa (ASA) lied to the country.

"That was when everything was taken way out of proportion."

ASA communications manager Corné Koch confirmed that a complaint was submitted to them on September 19.

According to the complaint, the billboard is "in bad taste" and it "objectifies" women.

The complaint is currently being investigated.