Zuma gives evidence in rape trial

The man once groomed to be South Africa’s next president defended himself today against charges that he raped an HIV-positive family friend and argued that it was consensual sexual intercourse.

Jacob Zuma, who was sacked as deputy president under a cloud of corruption last June, told a packed courtroom that he had caressed, kissed, massaged and then had sex with the woman, who at no stage tried to resist him.