Samukeliso Sithole, 17, was arrested last week after a female friend who had undressed in full view of the athlete found out that he was a male, the state dailies The Herald and Chronicle said.
Read that carefully. It was not the guy who undressed. It was the woman who undressed.... So guess how she figured out he is male.
From the other link I posted..."decorative"
Golden athlete must prove that she really is all woman
From Jan Raath in Harare
ZIMBABWE’S most successful young athlete, who has a string of international victories in women’s athletics, stands accused of being a man.
Samukeliso Sithole, 18, from a steelworkers’ compound in the central town of Kwekwe, has won track and field gold medals for Zimbabwe at venues across southern Africa.
Early next month she will attempt to convince a court that she is not guilty of impersonation and, in so doing, prove that her success is in no way due to hidden masculinity.
In addition to facing charges of impersonating a woman, she is being charged with indecent behaviour against one of her friends, Milita Mudondiro. The woman claims that Ms Sithole, whom she now believes to be a man, “impaired her dignity” by watching her undress when Ms Sithole visited her.
At a hearing last week, a magistrate allowed Ms Sithole to be freed on bail because she could not decide whether the athlete should be held in the women’s or the men’s wing of Kwekwe prison.
Prosecutors claim that a doctor’s report after Ms Sithole’s arrest asserted that she had a male organ, but her appearance in court left few onlookers in any doubt that they were looking at a woman.
“The court has a problem,” Tapfumaneyi Nkonde, for the prosecution, said. “She has everything of a woman — breasts, a woman’s voice and the features of a woman.” Ms Sithole told the court that she, like other female athletes, had undergone sex-determination tests before athletics meetings. She also had a boyfriend.
Last year Ms Sithole shattered Zimbabwean junior provincial records by winning gold medals in the long jump, high jump, 400m hurdles, javelin and shot. In the southern African championships in Botswana in June, she won Zimbabwe’s only gold medal.
She was found by athletics coaches scouting for promising athletes at school sports days in an impoverished rural area north of Kwekwe. Her success in athletics has brought her “millions of Zimbabwe dollars”, the court was told, enough to buy several plots of land in Kwekwe, and cattle.
“This business appears to have been started by local gossip about her,” Mr Nkonde said. Ms Sithole had been with a group of girlfriends in Kwekwe last month when a passer-by had shouted that she was a man. She had fled but had been chased and caught by the man, who had handed her over to police. She had been examined at Kwekwe’s state hospital.
Ms Sithole told the court that she could not use her male organ. “She said it was ‘decorative’,” Mr Nkonde said.
The athlete said that she was born with male and female genitalia, but that a traditional healer had made the male organ “disappear” with the application of “some herbs”.
However, her parents had paid the healer only half his fee. The organ had reappeared recently, she said, which she blamed on the healer who, she said, was trying to force her parents to pay the balance.
“She wants the trial to start so that she can be properly tested and prove she is female,” Mr Nkonde said.
The court ordered that Ms Sithole’s fingerprints be taken. “We don’t want a situation where another identical twin turns up,” Mr Nkonde said.
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