South Africa: Jacob Zuma
Written bySokari Ekine
Mzansi Afrika comments on the Jacob Zuma trial from a slightly different angle. Zuma knowning had unsafe sex with someone he knew was HIV+...”Whether he raped her not, he still knowingly went into a situation whereby he willingly engaged in sexual intercourse with a women that he knew to be infected with the AIDS virus. Huh? As a leader of a country with one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in the world, this is his personal behaviour? I don't get it – shouldn't he know better?”
Written bySokari Ekine
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my story is simular to the alledged victim’s in the Zuma rape case. The main difference is she has been allowed “her day” in court and the Dpp is refusing to allow mine to go to court. WHY MUST ZUMA BE PUT THRU ALL THE COURT PROCEEDINGS IF THE PERSON WHO RAPED ME DOES NOT HAVE TO. where is equality?
My sincerest sympathies for the pain you are having to go through and the failure of the courts to bring your rapist to justice. It is clear that one of the resons this trial is taking place is because it involves Jacob Zuma – we should not therefore approach it from Khwezi being “allowed to have her day in court”. Every rapist should face going to court and it is just and proper that even the Deputy President cannot escape justice. Are we to blame Khwezi for being raped and secondly for reporting it? She is been ripped apart by the media, insulted by crowds of largely female supporters of Zuma, her past sexual abuse even as a child is being branded about the media and used in defence of Zuma. The woman is going through hell so I think to say “she is being allowed her day in court” assumes she is somehow being given special treatement. On the contrary she is being exposed and stipped naked day after day. I think we should celebrate her courage in reporting being raped by a man of such high status in the government and South African society and not being intimidated by what that entails.
The government, the police and the court system are to blame for your rapist not being brought to trial – this has nothing to do with Khwezi.