Saturday, June 7, 2008

He did not show enough affection so her set out to comepletely destroy him with false rape charges.

A woman admitted on tape she had consensual sex with a doctor but later accused him of raping her, a court has heard.

The tape was admitted as evidence earlier in the Zwelitsha trial of prominent King William's Town doctor Sizwe Mxenge, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape, but has only now been released.

It was a recording of a telephone conversation between Mxenge and his accuser, who may not be named, on November 1, 2006 - two days after the alleged rape took place.

This was also the day the alleged rape was reported to the King William's Town police.

The 33-year-old married woman, a patient of Mxenge , accused the doctor of forcing her to perform a sexual act with him before he had non-consensual sex with her at his Bhisho hospital doctor's residence.

The Lovedale College student claims it all started when she visited Mxenge's surgery to be treated for abdominal, breast and neck pains.

She alleges that after examining her, Mxenge gave her injections and five tablets to take, after which she fell asleep.

When she woke up, she claims the doctor offered to drive her home as it was after office hours. Instead of taking her to her Sweetwaters home, Mxenge drove to Bhisho where he allegedly raped her before releasing her later that night.

But in the tape, she admits she was not raped and that the two had had consensual sex.

The tape starts off with Mxenge returning the woman's call as he had received a message that she called him while he was busy with a patient.

Responding to questions about why she had laid a charge with the police, the woman answers that she did so because he did not show care or affection for her after their sexual encounter and she was therefore angry at him.

"The main reason is because you did not care. You could not just act as if nothing had happened," she said.

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