Zuma's consensual sex claim 'fanciful'

South Africa’s most politically explosive trial since the end of apartheid neared its conclusion today, with the prosecution describing would-be president Jacob Zuma’s claim that he had consensual sex with his rape accuser as “fanciful".

Prosecutor Charin de Beer told the Johannesburg High Court in closing arguments that the 31-year-old HIV-positive woman would never have agreed to sex with the dismissed deputy president because she regarded him as a father figure; wasn’t interested in him sexually because she was a lesbian; and that she would have insisted on using a condom.