Lying 'maid' steals suitors' hearts

The Chinhoyi boy who dressed as a girl and secured a job as a housemaid at a farm outside the town recently attracted several men who fell in love with him thinking he was a woman.

Armed with the poise of an ordinary girl and matching ladies' attire, the cheeky teenager managed to hoodwink several people who took him on his word.

He not only managed to fool his employer Mrs Viola Mapuranga of Stand Number 27, Cheuchi Farm, Village 4 here, but also had men going after him.

One of the men who fell for the boy during his stay at the farm, which lasted a week, said he would help carry buckets of water for him and did several favours in a bid to win the "her" heart.

The teenager's shenanigans were exposed at Chinhoyi Rural Police Station during a search for money he had stolen from his employer. Narrating her ordeal, Mapuranga said last Wednesday, she arrived home from church to find the boy at her home.

Her 14-year-old daughter had met the boy who claimed that he was coming from Chikangwe in Karoi and was sent by his father to find their relatives.

He introduced himself as Patience Mapuranga, an indication that the boy had done his homework about the Mapuranga family.

Mapuranga was convinced since her late husband had once told her that he had relatives in Karoi.