Zuma takes aim at Redi Tlhabi, says she wants to label him a rapist

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Jacob Zuma says Redi Thlabi is working on a film about the Khwezi rape trial and that the purpose of the film is to brand him a rapist. He also claims that Thlabi is “part of the external forces trying to destroy him” by MandiNyathi

Zuma said journalist Redi Thlabi was working on a film about the rape trial in which Zuma was acquitted.“The movie Redi Thlabi is making is being done in the United States and is named ‘Raped by power’,” Zuma said.

Thlabi, a talk show host and member of the United Nations Global Journalists Corps took to Twitter and said “it had never crossed her mind to venture into films”. She also said in a tweet: “Ok everyone now this is serious. My husband has just laughed at me twice in 24 hours. That’s not right. He called me, I pick up and he said ‘hawu baby, why are you denying me all the juicy news? So you are a spy? And you are making a movie? In fact what’s your real name?”

Zuma was accused of raping Fezekile Ntsujela Khuzwayo, known as Khwezi, in 2005 while he was still deputy president.While giving his testimony before the commission, Zuma claimed that Thlabi was “part of the external forces trying to destroy him”.The book became an overnight bestseller.Zuma also claimed that former public service and administration minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi of being a spy who was recruited while he was a student in Lesotho.

The former president said there were many “individuals even in the ANC” who were “trying to assassinate his character”.The former president was testifying before the commission “under protest” since the commission’s legal team had requested him to appear before it to give his version of events following eight witnesses having directly implicated him.

 

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