Zuma tells of sex
2006-04-03 15:01
Johannesburg - Former deputy president Jacob Zuma described to the Johannesburg High Court in detail on Monday how he had sex with the woman who has accused him of rape.
He went to her bedroom on the night of November 2 last year after finishing work, because she wanted to tell him something, Zuma testified.
He told her to come and speak to him in his bedroom, which she did a short while later. She sat on his bed as there were no chairs in his room.
While talking to him, she complained she was getting cold and asked if she could get under the duvet.
"I said yes she can, no problem," Zuma told the court.
As she was wearing only a kanga when she entered his room, he thought she wouldn't have a problem if he changed into his pyjamas, which he did.
'I noticed she didn't have panties on'
When the woman complained her body was sore and asked for a massage, Zuma fetched baby oil from his bathroom. On his return, she was lying on her stomach, the court heard.
He started massaging her shoulders, but most of her back was covered by the kanga. She loosened it, "so I could massage with ease".
"I removed the kanga towards her rear and noticed she didn't have panties on."
When she asked him to massage her legs, he lifted the edge of the kanga towards her buttocks.
"I noticed she didn't have any difficulty with me rubbing her up to her private parts."
She then asked him to massage the front of her body. While doing so "I thought to myself, maybe she would like me to rub her whole body", Zuma told the court.
He removed the kanga completely and started rubbing her legs.
When he had finished, the woman thanked him. Zuma took the baby oil back to the bathroom and washed his hands. When he returned to the room, the woman was under the duvet.
He climbed into the bed and saw the woman had not put on her kanga.
She put her arm over him. He touched her and she responded.
'She was ready'
He got out of the bed, took off his pyjamas, then climbed back in. She put an arm and a leg over him.
"I touched her and kissed her. When I touched her private parts, she was ready."
He asked if she had a condom. She said "no". He told her he did not have one either.
When he hesitated, she said he could not "leave a woman in that situation".
"And I said to myself, I know as we grew up in the Zulu culture you don't leave a woman in that situation because if you do then she will even have you arrested and say that you are a rapist."
The woman opened her thighs wide, they kissed each other and then started having sexual intercourse.
When he told her she was "a real woman", she laughed. Asked how she felt during intercourse, she replied "fine, very fine".
He also asked her if he could ejaculate inside her. She did not respond, just smiled.
Zuma did ejaculate inside her and once they were through, he went to his bathroom and had a shower. He returned to the bedroom to find the woman had left.
She was in the guestroom. "I asked her how was it. She said: 'No fine'."
She told him she had taxi fare but intended finding her way to Jan Smuts Avenue where she would get transport.
They kissed each other and bade each other goodbye.
Zuma told the court his accuser was an assertive woman. If she didn't like something, she would say it.
He did not know about the fainting fits in which she would lose consciousness, he responded to question by his lawyer, Kemp J Kemp.
Asked if he knew whether she could put up a strong physical resistance, Zuma replied: "If she did not want it, she would easily push me away. I know her. She is not weak."
The trial continues.
- SAPA