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 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - South Africa's most politically explosive trial since the end of apartheid neared a conclusion Wednesday, with the prosecution describing as "fanciful" an assertion by former Deputy President Jacob Zuma that he had consensual sex with the woman who has accused him of rape.
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 Zuma because she regarded him as a father figure; wasn't interested in him sexually because she is a lesbian; and that she would have insisted on a condom, which was not used.
"It is clear that she was raped," de Beer said.
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