Former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils expressed sadness at the death of Fezekile Khuzwayo‚ known as Khwezi‚ the HIV-positive woman who accused President Jacob Zuma of rape in 2005. She died on Saturday. Zuma was acquitted of the charge in 2006. “The news is absolutely devastating. It is a terrible tragedy. I spoke to her and her mother recently‚ and she was just getting her life together again‚” Kasrils told Radio 702. Umkhonto we Sizwe Veterans Association chairman Kebby Maphatsoe claimed Kasrils was behind the rape allegations against Zuma and that he “sent” her. Maphatsoe apologised for the defamatory statement in August and agreed to pay Kasrils R500 000 when the defamation case brought by Kasrils was heard in the High Court in Pretoria in August. In his defamation suit in August‚ Kasrils described knowing Khuzwayo from Swaziland in the early 1980s when she was about five years old.
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