Judgment day set for Zuma
2006-05-02 12:51
Johannesburg - Judgement in the Jacob Zuma trial will start on May 8.
"The court will now adjourn and judgment will be delivered 9 o'clock, Monday the 8th," Judge Willem van der Merwe said on Tuesday.
Van der Merwe told the Johannesburg High Court that he did not know at this stage how long delivering the judgment would last.
Afterwards Zuma shook hands with his lawyer Kemp J Kemp and was later whisked down Pritchard Street in his convoy.
Don Mkhwanazi, chairperson of the Friends of Jacob Zuma trust, was asked what he would be doing while waiting for judgment.
He said he did not know, but added: "I can't change anything now."
The former deputy president's defence team said earlier the police investigating the rape charge against Zuma tried to trap him.
Kemp J Kemp said: "If it happened the way you said, you set a trap."
He was referring to when Zuma allegedly pointed to the guestroom after being asked by an investigating officer, commissioner Norman Taioe, to point out the "scene of the crime".
Zuma said he and the woman who laid the rape charge against him had consensual sex in his bedroom on November 02 last year. The woman said she was raped in the guest bedroom.
- SAPA