Bulawayo based Sunflower wekuzvichinja kuita mukadzi was taken by police after akadhakwa zvekupenga and women in the community were afraidA transgender woman in Zimbabwe who was kidnapped some time ago and found alive shocked the Bulawayo community this past weekend. Sunflower who used to be a church preacher drank too much alcohol and was found sleeping in the road in Bulawayo.
According to a close source the women around called for help and later realized that it was a male in a dress. The mother was called to the scene and later came with clothes to dress him. Another bypasser says they have never seen anything like this before and they thought he was disguising himself to get to women.
Sometime ago when he went missing Chayelle Cathro, a missing persons investigator, said Sunflower Sibanda was last seen at the Eclipse nightclub in Harare, the country’s capital, with an unknown assailant on June 28.
Sibanda, who lives in Bulawayo, the country’s second largest city that is roughly 288 miles from Harare, reserved an Airbnb in the capital’s Avonlea neighborhood before she went to the club.
Sibanda on July 3 was dumped in a remote area along Bulawayo Road in the Harare suburb of Norton. She then walked 29 miles to GALZ (an Association of LGBTI People in Zimbabwe)’s offices where her family in a press release said she spent the night.
“She never checked in as she was abducted, taken advantage of, and left in a remote area after a night out with friends,” said her family. “She was abducted by someone claiming he would take her to the Airbnb when she was inebriated. He did not take her home but instead robbed and sexually assaulted her.”
