Our TWAG quote of the week comes courtesy of one of the many men and women who claim to be experts in the supernatural. According to the Herald, a little baby called Kingsize, a rather ironic name, as you will discover if you stay with me, was born a boy at Marondera Hospital on January 22 this year, but mysteriously changed to a girl this last Thursday. In other parts of the world, such sex changes occur only after painful surgery and batches and batches of oestrogen hormones. Here in Zimbabwe, we do not need medical instruments of any kind! Or hormones for that matter! That, right there, kiddies, is our comparative advantage!
An expert from the Zimbabwe Traditional Medicine Practitioners’ Council, Sekuru Kennedy Kachuruka Mbewe, advised that the sex change could be reversed by prophets or traditional healers, but added that the magic can be left to wear off over time allowing the baby to return to being a boy.
The expert said further this was probably caused by the kind of magic used by sex workers to make the genitalia of non-paying clients disappear.
“The client would wake up the next morning to discover that his manhood has disappeared, but in actual fact it will be there. In Shona, we call it mushonga wekupofomadza [medication that makes one blind],” Mbewe said.
He speculated that poor baby Kingsize may have been put down on a bed which had been treated by the magic spell’s owner resulting in the child’s sex change.
“Such sex change magic is of foreign origin,” he added.
Well of course it is!
I am only surprised that the Herald did not take this chance to blame the British, after all, they are to blame for all else!
2 comments:
I should say this is nonsense but unfortunately it's not. Chibhoyi chiriko.
I have a longstanding fascination with penis theft and so it's interesting to see the Zimbabwean version - even though it's apparently not Zimbabwean.
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