Lechane Bezuidenhout (born Leon Bezuidenhout in Belgium circa 1967) is a transsexual international con artist. Leon, a Pietersburg Telkom technician, underwent a sex change operation, worked as a waitress before moving to South Africa. Once relocated to KwaZulu-Natal, in 1995, Bezuidenhout started using the name Princess Charné, and in 1996, with husband "Prince François", promised the then-director general of the provincial government, Otty Nxumalo, that her nonexistent African Business Development Consortium, would invest a large sum of money in a resort near Port Durnford.