Zuma's rape accuser 'had sex with stranger'

Manzi found out about what had happened from the woman herself when he asked her how she knew Thulani and the nature of their relationship.

Manzi told the court he met the woman in 1988 when Thulani brought her to their flat.

When she arrived there alone the next Saturday, Thulani asked Manzi to chase her away. Instead, Manzi watched videos with her while Thulani spent the day in his bedroom with another woman.

He walked her home at 8pm, bidding her farewell near her flat, but went inside when she invited him to meet her mother.

The woman went to her bedroom, returning a little later to tell her mother she would be sleeping over at the flat. "Oh, okay, enjoy," her mother responded.

As they were leaving, Manzi asked her if the arrangement was "just like that?" She replied that her mother understood.

Thulani ran into his bedroom on seeing the woman arrive back at the flat with Manzi. He still had the other woman with him.

A little while later, the woman went to the bathroom, undressed and climbed into the bath with Manzi. He asked her in a whisper what Thulani would say about them being together and she replied that they did not have a "love relationship".

After bathing, the two went back to Manzi's room where she explained to him how she and Thulani had met.

They went to sleep without having sex. Manzi walked the woman home the next day.

He encountered her on a few more occasions, but she never returned to the flat.

Manzi told the court he next saw the woman in central Durban in 2000 while he was shopping with his wife. He took her telephone number and told her he would phone her after dropping his wife at the airport.

He later drove to the University of Natal, where the woman had told him she was studying, contacted her and went to her room in a residence.

There, she told him she had been diagnosed with HIV and showed him three tampon boxes containing her medication for the virus.

At that stage it was easier to see if someone had HIV than it was now because of to availability of medication, Manzi told the court. The woman was one of the "strongest-looking" he knew.

Asked where she had contracted the HI-virus, she replied that it may have been from Thulani, from her boyfriend, or from a rape five years before.

Asked if she had told Thulani she had HIV she answered: "No. I don't see him."

Manzi then asked if she had told her boyfriend she had the virus. She replied that, unable to contact him, she had left the message on his phone: "I wanted to tell you I am HIV-positive".

When Manzi next saw her it was on participating in a march by people living with HIV at an Aids conference in Durban.

When it was put to him under cross-examination that the woman denied knowing him or Thulani, Manzi replied: "Like I said she is a friend of mine. I don't think she was anticipating my presence here."

Thulani is expected to testify later on Wednesday. - Sapa

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