Redi Tlhabi scoffs at Jacob Zuma's claims to Zondo that she's making a rape-trial movie
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Veteran radio broadcaster and journalist Redi Tlhabi has reacted to claims by former president Jacob Zuma that she is working on a film about his rape trial.
Zuma, who was acquitted on charges of rape in 2007, started his much-awaited testimony before the Zondo commission on Monday.
He claimed that Tlhabi was a "spy" and there had been a "co-ordinated attempt to assassinate" his character, including branding him a rapist.
Zuma said some of the "spies" had given authors information to write books about him.
"The movie Redi Tlhabi is making is being done in the US and is named Raped by Power," Zuma told the commission.
He was referring to Tlhabi's 2017 book Khwezi which looks at the life of Aids activist Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzway, who Zuma was acquitted of raping in 2005.
The book also looks at the issue of the alleged rape and child rape that took place in the ANC training camps in the 1980s.
In a series of tweets, Tlhabi laughed at the allegations, saying she was surprised to hear that she was making a movie.
"You guys are joking? For real? Maybe he read I was going to study and work overseas? Maybe?" she said.