Zuma accuser 'was raped before'
2006-03-07 16:11
Johannesburg - The woman Jacob Zuma allegedly raped told Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday she had been raped on a previous occasion.
She said this while giving evidence on the contents of an SMS sent to her sister after the alleged incident involving Zuma.
Details of the previous rape were not revealed.
In the SMS, she wrote: "I am very uncomfortable, Umalume is starting to look at me sexually. There must be something in my drawers (panties). The mothers must not know."
On Monday, she told the court she felt the need to tell her sister something had happened, but could not yet bring herself to give the details.
Cross-examined by Zuma's counsel, Kemp J Kemp, on Tuesday about what she had meant by the SMS, she replied it had indicated there must be something wrong with her vagina that he would want to do something like that to her.
Kemp put it to her that the SMS in fact meant that there was something about her that attracted this kind of attention.
She replied: "I hope not. I see it as meaning something is wrong with me, or bad luck, but not that I'm doing something."
She also said she did not believe a woman could do something that would allow her to be raped.
The cross-examination continues on Wednesday.
- SAPA