Jacob Zuma's lawyer shocked the woman who laid a rape charge against the former deputy president by producing on Thursday the first 16 pages of an autobiography she was working on.

Kemp J Kemp had asked the woman whether she was sexually experienced and asked her many lovers she had had.

The woman said she considered herself a lesbian and had had about five male lovers. Kemp then handed in as evidence the document and asked the woman to study it.

She replied: "Can I just say... I find it disturbing that this private document is here and how relevant this is here. "I have an idea how it came to be here, but I find it disturbing." Kemp pressed on and said that judging by a note in the front of the manuscript, the names in the book had not yet been changed.

The woman said she did not know how to proceed with answering the question because she did not know what the implications were for people named in the book. "What are you going to do with these names?" she asked.

The trial continues. 

With acknowledgement to Sapa.