Jacob Zuma in Aids row after fathering 20th child

South Africa's polygamous president Jacob Zuma has been accused of undermining his country's fight against Aids after it emerged he had fathered his 20th child. Although Zuma recently married for a fifth time, the baby is by a woman who is not one of his current wives.
 
The Sunday Times of South Africa reported that Zuma's latest child is a baby girl called Thandekile Matina Zuma who was born in October. The newspaper claimed that the President had had unprotected sex with the daughter of Irvin Khoza, the chairman of the World Cup Organising Committee and one of the most powerful men in South African football. The baby's mother Sonono Khoza is a 39-year-old banking executive.
 
A family friend of the Khozas told the newspaper that last December a delegation had visited the family in Soweto on Zuma's behalf. His representatives met the Khozas to discuss the customary Zulu payment (inhlawulo) made when a baby is born out of wedlock. The source also claimed that Zuma himself met with Sonono and her mother, Matina, in January to talk about child maintenance.
 
Irvin Khoza is also reported to have told family friends that he felt "betrayed" by Zuma's relationship with his daughter. He had considered the president a friend, the newspaper said.  
 
The claim about Zuma's baby - which has not been denied by the President's office - has outraged opposition leaders as proof that yet again the 67-year-old has had unsafe sex despite apologising for it in the past. In 2006 Zuma was acquitted of raping a family friend but conceded that he had "erred" by having unprotected sex.
 
Around 5.8 million people are infected in South Africa with the HIV virus. Zuma's behaviour "directly contradicts" a current government campaign against multiple sexual partners, said Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille. "There are some people who may argue that Jacob Zuma's sex life is a matter of private morality or 'culture', but this is not so. His personal behaviour has profound public consequences."
 
The revelation about Zuma's baby comes just days after the president defended polygamy during a question and answer session at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Asked if he loved all his wives equally, Zuma replied "Absolutely".

But the Rev Kenneth Meshoe, a Christian Democrat, told the Sunday Times: "We recommend Zuma goes for sex addiction therapy as Tiger Woods did." ·