Saturday, April 08, 2006

How stupid do you have to be?

Comments made during the rape trial of our former Deputy President. I'm posting them here, not as any kind of judgment on his guilt or lack of guilt, but because this is the guy who was the head of the National Aids Council and the Moral Regeneration Campaign. I shudder to think of the damage his comments have done to the AIDS movement in this country.

"You cannot leave a woman if she is already at that stage (of sexual arousal)." - Former deputy president Jacob Zuma, giving evidence in the Johannesburg High Court during his rape trial.

"Under normal circumstances, if a woman is dressed in a skirt, she will sit properly with her legs together. But she would cross her legs and wouldn't even mind if the skirt was raised very much." - Zuma.

"I had no problem having sexual intercourse with her, bearing in mind that she had needs." - Zuma.

"She consented. She actually took the initiative. When she got into that bed she encouraged me." - Zuma.

"It would minimise the risk of catching the disease." - Zuma, explaining to the Johannesburg High Court why he took a shower after having sex with an HIV-positive woman.

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