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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma will testify that he had consensual sex with the HIV-positive woman he is accused of raping at his home in Johannesburg last year.
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An African National Congress (ANC) court docked six months pay from two men who had sex with Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser — not because the court found she had been raped, but because she was a child. The Johannesburg High Court heard on Thursday that one of the men still denies he had sex with her when she was a teenager.
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The woman accusing Jacob Zuma of raping her told the Johannesburg High Court on Wednesday that she became ”shit scared” when she realised what was about to happen. Zuma’s lawyer Kemp J Kemp had asked her why she did not open her eyes to see what he was doing when he came into her guest room and started massaging her.
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After describing in detail her alleged rape by Jacob Zuma, the complainant told the Johannesburg High Court on Monday that she had been offered compensation if she dropped the charge. She was also asked if she realised the effect the allegation would have on the African National Congress, and told to deny the charge to two newspaper reporters.
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The woman at the centre of the Jacob Zuma rape trial has told the Johannesburg High Court about her ordeal. The complainant in the state vs Zuma said she was already asleep when the former deputy president entered her room. It is against the law to name a rape victim, unless she gives consent.. He offered to tuck her in and massage her.
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With purple ribbons, T-shirt and bumper sticker sales, street cordons, loud music and singing, the next leg of the Jacob Zuma rape trial will start on Monday. ”Yes, we are ready to go,” said Makhosini Nkosi, spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority.
Nelson Mandela, the country’s first democratically elected president, voted in Houghton, Johannesburg, on Wednesday.
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/ 24 February 2006
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If the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) loses its eleventh hour bid to contest the city of Cape Town in next Wednesday’s election it will take out interdicts to prevent all other parties from contesting it too, the party’s lawyer told the Constitutional Court on Thursday.
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/ 23 February 2006
The death toll in the powerful quake that hit Mozambique on Thursday morning was still uncertain by Thursday afternoon, with authorities still visiting rural areas to assess the impact there. The quake could be felt as far afield as Harare and Durban. Two deaths have been reported so far.
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/ 23 February 2006
The death toll in the powerful quake that hit Mozambique on Thursday morning was still uncertain with authorities still visiting rural areas to assess the impact there. Up to two deaths have been reported so far. The quake could be felt as far afield as Harare and Durban, and Johannesburg’s emergency services also received quake-related calls.