Majoni Jonas Zitha

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Cross-dressing in colonial Rhodesia.

A testimony of Slopo Mazinge was heard before Rhodesia High Court in 1927. Slopo Mazinge was a Xhosa immigrant from Eastern Cape who had settled near Gwelo (Gweru) in Zimbabwe.

His son had been discovered posing as a female nurse and wearing female clothes including underwear and high heals.

When questioned by the prosecutor about his son's behaviour, Mr Mazinge defended himself to the court: "I have never noticed anything peculiar about the accused. I have always thought him sound in his mind. At the kraal he wears dresses. He has always worked as a nurse. He associates with girls and he has been wearing dresses ever since he was young. I have given him male clothing but he has refused to wear them. I have never thought him mentally affected.