Meet child mystery lesbian couple

By Lindie Whiz, www.newzimbabwe.com, Nov 5, 2009


A LESBIAN who claimed to have been impregnated by another woman has given birth to a child with a tooth, disparate arms and a crooked leg, reports said.

Fungai Manhiko, 21, has named her child, a boy, Fanwell Dube – the surname of her lesbian partner, Elnett.

Manhiko made headline news in Bulawayo when she claimed two months ago that she was expecting Dube’s baby.

The couple claimed that Dube grows a male sexual organ when they are together between the sheets, but which disappears after being intimate.

And Dube claims to have no recollection of her sex trysts with Manhiko “as she would be in a trance” which she believes “is a result of mystical powers that bedevil her family”, the Sunday News reported.

Fiercely conservative residents of Bulawayo’s Sizinda suburb – where Manhiko lived until her flight to her rural Masvingo last week – have been gripped by the couple’s bizarre story.

Two weeks ago, Manhiko delivered a healthy baby boy but was stunned to discover the tot had a single tooth, uneven arms and a warped leg.

A local inyanga (traditional healer), Thulani Sibanda, told the Sunday News: “It is possible the ancestors gave the couple the baby to punish them for violating the rules of nature.

“It is taboo for women to sleep together … I can assure you that that tooth is just the beginning of their problems.”

A newly-born baby with a tooth is a rare phenomenon. The tooth usually falls out days after birth, as happened to the lesbian couple’s child.

Medical experts have dismissed Manhiko’s claims that Dube could be the “father” of her child as nonsense.

And challenged by the Sunday News to take a DNA test, Manhiko stormed: “Why should we go for a DNA test? When your parents gave birth to you, did they go for tests? Obviously they did not because your father knew without doubt that you were his seed.

“It’s the same with Elnett, she knows that the baby is hers, in fact, the baby looks like her, he has her eyes and nose. If Elnett and her relatives want a DNA, they are welcome but they will be disappointed with the results.”

The two women are both unemployed, and Manhiko said she feared for the child’s well-being.

“I have no access to good food. A breast-feeding mother needs to eat well, without enough food there is trouble. It’s not healthy for me and the baby. I am not concerned about myself but the baby. He might grow up succumbing to diseases as a result of the impoverished state I am in,” she said, just hours before leaving Bulawayo for rural Masvingo.

Men locked donkeys in hut for 20 days

By Lindie Whiz, www.newzimbabwe.com, 10/16/2009


POLICE have arrested a man and are looking for another after two donkeys were stolen and locked up in a HUT for 20 days.

Sifelani Mnkandla, 19, appeared before a Tsholotsho magistrate on Wednesday charged with stock theft. His alleged accomplice, Skiri Ndlovu, is on the run.

The two men may yet learn that the law is not an ASS. If convicted, they could be jailed for between nine and 25 years under Zimbabwe's harsh anti-stock theft laws.

Prosecuting, Joshua Muguti told Tsholotsho magistrate Toendepi Zhou that on September 10 this year, Finish Ndlovu’s two male donkeys worth US$400 were grazing in the Manyenge area of Sipepa – some 130km north-west of Bulawayo.

Mkandla, in the company of Skiri Ndlovu, the prosecutor alleged, rounded up the donkeys and herded them to Skiri’s homestead where they penned them in one of the huts.

The donkeys stayed locked in the hut, without water and food, until October 1 when a member of the local Neighbourhood Watch Committee was alerted.

Enot Nkungu Ndlovu freed the donkeys and managed to apprehend Mnkandla, but Skiri escaped.

Goat gives birth to 'human-like creature'

By Lindie Whiz, www.newzimbabwe.com, 02.09.2009

THE provincial governor of Zimbabwe’s Midlands Province said “an adult human being was responsible” after a goat gave birth to a “human-like creature” on Sunday.

Governor Jason Machaya led a delegation of police officers and journalists to the Maboleni area in Lower Gweru, under Chief Sogwala, to see the “creature” which died within hours.

“The head belongs to a man while the body is that of a goat,” Governor Machaya told the Chronicle newspaper.

Machaya said he believed a local man had “lost self control” and had sex with the goat.

“This incident is very shocking. It is my first time to see such an evil thing,” the governor said. “It is really embarrassing. It’s self-evident that an adult human being was responsible. Evil powers caused this person to lose self control.”

The Chronicle said “the creature had a human head, face, nose, shoulders and human-like skin that had very scanty furs. It had goat features from the ‘shoulders’ to the legs.”

Its “sagging stomach”, the paper said, “prevented curious villagers from determining whether it had human or animal sex organs as it protruded covering the front part.”

“Villagers said the end product was so scary that even dogs were afraid to move close to the goat,” the paper’s Midlands correspondent wrote after a trip to Maboleni with the governor.

A villager, Themba Moyo, said the “creature” was “a miracle that has never been witnessed anywhere”.

The goat’s owner, a Mr Nyoni, said he called the police and village elders after his shock find.

Nyoni has 15 goats and says the animal that gave birth to the bizarre creature “is the mother of most of my herd”.

“It’s the first time that my goat has done this. My goats often give birth to sets of twins,” he added.

Chief Sogwala has summoned villagers to a meeting, and fears the incident is a “bad omen”.

The chief advised Nyoni to seek the help of a sangoma “in search of answers to this bizarre incident”.

Govenor Machaya said it was a “disgrace that a man can stoop so low opting for animal company in a world full of women.”

He added: “We often hear cases of human beings who commit bestiality but this is the first time for such an act to produce a product with human features.”

The governor said he would lead a campaign for harsh sentences for people who abuse animals.

He added: “Our people should be taught that such acts are bad, they are evil. God created men differently from animals. As men, we have women who really love us. They even outnumber us by more than 52 percent I think.

“It is my prayer that whoever did this should be punished severely, if caught, so that we discourage others who may think of committing similar crimes.”