Sometimes I read a story which is so ridiculous I feel it must be false that I go away and check later expecting a retraction by the news source. But instead of being retracted I find that the stupidity has increased, that is what I am going through now.
South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma said he showered after sex with an HIV-positive woman, thinking this would reduce his risk of being infected … Mr Zuma’s testimony that he did not use a condom during the encounter, despite knowing the woman was HIV-positive, caused dismay among local Aids activists.
Honestly how do you deal with that now? A shower to prevent AIDS? How do you deal with that? Especially when you considered that Zuma at one time headed the South African government’s National Aids Council and the Moral Regeneration Campaign in his role as VP. As in he was the number 1 guy in the fight against AIDS. I walked away thinking this was obviously a false story. Only to bump into this today:
“Why would a man who could be the future president of this country be prepared to take this risk (of contracting HIV)?” state advocate Charin de Beer asked Zuma.
“I had made a decision at that time. I knew the risk that I was facing, but I believed it was small,” Zuma said.
This is madness is scary. A small risk? What the hell? Consider for a moment this man was a heartbeat away from the South Africa presidency.
And we haven’t even talked about his excuses for the alleged rape.
“She had never in the past come to my house dressed in a skirt. Including times when I was living in Pretoria. When she came to me in a skirt after those talks I referred to earlier on, well, it told me something,” he said.
Well.
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