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Defence closes case in Zuma trial
18/04/2006 15:47 - (SA)
Johannesburg - As the defence closed its case in the Jacob Zuma rape trial, Judge Willem van der Merwe told the Johannesburg High Court that April 26 and 28 had been set aside for closing arguments.
He was unable to say how long it would take him to make a judgment.
However, he would do it as quickly as possible.
The last defence witness was clinical psychologist Dr Louise Olivier, who practices in Pretoria and is also the resident counsellor "Dr Louise" in You magazine.
She testified that the complainant did not act the way women usually do after they are raped, saying that in her experience if a woman could not leave the place where she was raped, she would at least lock the door or barricade herself in.
The complainant, who alleged that Zuma raped her at his Johannesburg home last year, spent the night in his guest bedroom after the alleged incident. She did not lock the door.
Olivier did not agree with another psychologist, Merle Friedman, who earlier in the trial had testified for the State that the woman was dazed after the alleged rape.
The complainant said that after the alleged incident she had made phone calls, had a shower, packed a lunch and caught a taxi to work.
Olivier said if one was in a daze, one would be "semi-functioning".
She also said that emotional transference could lead a victim of previous rape to perceive consensual sex as rape afterwards.
The alleged rape of the HIV-positive complainant, a family friend of Zuma, took place at his Johannesburg home on November 2 last year.
- SAPA
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