Publication: Sapa Issued: Date: 2005-12-12 Reporter: Sapa Reporter: Reporter:

Zuma Denies Newspaper Sex Confession Claims

 

Publication 

Sapa
BC-ZUMA 

Issued

Johannesburg
Date

2005-12-12

Reporter

 Sapa

 

A claim that Jacob Zuma confessed to having had consensual sex with a woman he is alleged to have raped were manufactured by a journalist and newspaper who acted irresponsibly and unethically, he said on Monday.

Zuma said that an article in the Mail and Guardian newspaper had inaccurately reported that he made the confession to trade unionists at his home in Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal.

"Mail and Guardian has crossed the line. They printed a manufactured article, probably done so by their journalist or by their impeccable and typically anonymous sources," Zuma said in a statement.

"The newspaper and journalist were also irresponsible and acted unethically by not contacting me for comment on the issue."

The newspaper reported that Zuma made the confession to Congress of SA Trade Union secretary general Zwelenzima Vavi and president Willie Madisha and to SA Communist Party leader Blade Nzimande.

But Zuma said: "Alliance leaders Vavi, Madisha and Nzimande did not visit me at Nkandla on the previous Sunday as the Friday weekly had implied.

"Two of the three men had never been to my homestead and I certainly did not make any confessions to these or any other leaders in this regard."

Zuma's lawyer, Michael Hulley, said his client would take the matter further.

Zuma was charged last week with raping a 31-year-old HIV-positive woman at his home in Johannesburg.

His trial will start on February 13.

With acknowledgements to Sapa.


Interesting - if the Accused denies the consensual, but if there is DNA matching and medical evidence implicating the Accused, then there is almost an immediate proof beyond a reasonable doubt - unless there is another conspiracy theory that the DNA was harvested and planted and medical evidence manufactured.

If the latter turned out to be fact, not only would the complainant be in big trouble, but both SAPS, the DSO and the NPA would collectively make the Two Imbongolos comparative MENSA fellows.