#7 Tintswalo Mavimbela

#7 Tintswalo Mavimbela

Tintswalo was once a brilliant chemist working for the Swaziland government under the name Dr. Sikelela Mavimbela, masquerading as a man. She developed new and powerful narcotics for sale by the government to many worldwide criminal organizations.

Prior to her masquerade, Tintswalo was sexually assaulted repeated, as many women in Swaziland are. Like the majority of young women, she lost her virginity to her rapist. She was raised by her grandmother after her mother died. She never knew her father. Her grandmother taught her to keep her emotion in check and to guard herself while she focused on her studies.

One day, Tintswalo realized she had somehow moved from working on narcotics to chemical weapons based on her original narcotics. She was upset, but kept her emotion in check and forged ahead, creating the drug “putout” which transform the victim into a mindless and violent raging animal permanently.

The day she left the government was the day she saw the man who took her virginity. She had gone to an airport hanger adjacent to her building for some cleaning supplies she had run out of. Inside the hangar was three buses and horrible noises were coming from them. She looked in the window and the face of her rapist slammed against the glass, screaming and biting, restrained in his seat. The buses were filled with men suffering the effects of putout. Tintswalo pitied him and realized if she could feel that way about a man she hated so much, then putout was truly horrible and her creation of it was no longer something she could be a part of.

She attempted to leave the country, but a warrant for high treason was issued for her and the borders of Swaziland were always extremely tight, requiring very restrictive paperwork. She travels the roads of Swaziland now looking for a way out of the country, selling her custom drugs to tourists (using her camera and selling photos as a cover) and natives alike until she can find a way to escape. She created another, new male persona for these travels, calling herself Lindiwe Dyuba and dressing in the loud African dandy style of sapeurs, blending in by standing out.