/ 12 May 1999

NAKED THIEVES ATTACK WOMEN GOLFERS

TWO naked thieves with painted faces and leaves in their hair leapt from bushes on a Zimbabwean golf course and did a war dance around two startled women golfers before making off with their handbags, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. The state-run Herald newspaper said the thieves, whose only weapons were their birthday suits, left the women — one of whom was an elderly tourist from England — stunned and blushing and minus cash and cellphones. Peggy Taylor told the newspaper that although she had been shocked, she could now laugh about the incident, which took place at the Wingate Park Club in Harare. However, she said it would be a long time before she went out to play golf again.