The Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust will sell T-shirts and bumper stickers outside the Johannesburg High Court on Monday when former deputy president Jacob Zuma's rape trial begins.

"On Monday we are going to have T-shirts and bumper stickers on sale," said the acting Gauteng chairman of the trust, Zobaphi Sithole.

It was not known yet what words would appear on the items.

"People who design things will come up with these things," Sithole said at a media conference in Johannesburg.

The money raised would go towards Zuma's legal expenses in his corruption trial to be held in Durban later this year. When pressed on the matter Sithole could not say whether the money would also go towards covering the expenses of the rape trial.

Zuma allegedly raped a family friend at his home in Forest Town in Johannesburg in November. 

With acknowledgement to Sapa.