As the rape trial of former president Jacob Zuma unfolds, use this timeline to keep track of the most important events of each day of the trial.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>The possibility of Jacob Zuma having contracted HIV from the woman he allegedly raped was discussed in the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday. The former deputy president has said he had unprotected and consensual sex with the woman on November 2 last year. Virology specialist Professor Desmond Martin told the court the risk of acquiring the virus through unprotected sex is three in 10 000.
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/ 26 February 2006
The activists who were insulted and threatened outside the court where Zuma appeared on on rape charges last week have already received permission to protest when the case resumes. The Mail & Guardian‘s Ferial Haffajee spoke to one of the organisers.
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/ 9 February 2006
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Judge Phineas Mojapelo may preside over the rape trial of Jacob Zuma next week, but the final announcement will only be made on Friday. An official in the Johannesburg High Court registrar’s office said on Thursday that Mojapelo would preside over the trial, but an official in Mojapelo’s chambers said he could not confirm this.
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/ 30 December 2005
South Africans are bracing for political storm clouds in 2006 as the ruling African Nations Congress confronts its biggest crisis in more than a decade of power, but an economic boom could spread some sunshine. The turmoil surrounding the fate of former deputy president Jacob Zuma, once a frontrunner to succeed President Thabo Mbeki, has laid bare deep divisions within the ANC.
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/ 5 December 2005
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African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma on Sunday cited a ”fast modernising society”, self-enrichment, ambition and a quest for power as threats facing the tripartite alliance. Zuma said the quest for economic, social and political power was threatening the foundation on which the liberation movement was built.
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/ 2 December 2005
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>Jacob Zuma confessed to senior trade union and communist leaders this week that he had sex with the woman he is alleged to have raped, but that it was consensual. Impeccable sources also say the alliance leaders, who visited Zuma at his Nkandla homestead last Sunday, also persuaded him not to resign from his post as African National Congress deputy president.
The legal noose being used to lasso Jacob Zuma appears to be tightening as the Scorpions’ investigation widens to include Zuma benefactors other than Schabir Shaik — centrally influential businessman Jürgen Kögl, Durban tycoon Vivian Reddy and prominent Mpumulanga businesswoman Nora Fakude-Nkuna.
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A pastoral delegation from the South African Council of Churches met Deputy President Jacob Zuma in Midrand on Monday evening to discuss the implications of his financial adviser being found guilty of fraud and corruption.