S.Africa's Zuma says took shower to minimise AIDS risk

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JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — South Africa's former deputy president Jacob Zuma told his rape trial that he took a shower after sex with his HIV-positive accuser in order to minimise the risk of contracting AIDS.

Zuma, who at the time sat on the government's National AIDS Council tasked with awareness and prevention campaigns, also told the court in Johannesburg that she initiated sex.

Once seen as frontrunner to succeed President Thabo Mbeki, Zuma has pleaded not guilty to a charge that he raped the 31-year-old woman, a family friend, at his Johannesburg home on November 2.

"I had my suspicions that there was something sexually related that she was after," he told the Johannesburg high court under cross-examination.

He has testified that they had...