Zuma accuser 'not forceful enough'
2006-03-08 11:57
Johannesburg - The woman who laid a rape charge against Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday she did not know why she did not stop him when he started massaging her on the night of the alleged rape.
"Why didn't you just sit up and say: 'Umalume, (uncle) I don't want you to touch me please, leave the room'?" his lawyer Kemp J Kemp asked her in the Johannesburg High Court.
She replied: "I, I don't know why I didn't. I had already said twice that I was sleeping..."
Kemp asked her the question again and she said that perhaps she wasn't as forceful as she thought she should have been.
Kemp spent the morning cross-questioning her in minute detail about certain aspects of her statement.
He questioned her at length on whether the door to her guest room was closed when she was in bed, on which side she was lying and asked her to demonstrate how Zuma massaged her.
On the second day of her cross-examination she remained composed and articulate and held a small blue cushion to her stomach throughout the proceedings, while Zuma followed the proceedings carefully.
The case will resume after tea.
The woman said Zuma allegedly raped her at his Johannesburg home on November 2, 2005.
- SAPA