[03:10.77]Zwelinzima Vavi called the allegations part of efforts to destroy him.
[03:15.04]Here is Gabriel Gatehouse.
[03:16.54]Documents posted on the Cosatu website show what purport to be transcript of text messages between Mr. Vavi and his female accuser dating back to January this year.
[03:26.57]In one the woman writes: that was not consensual.
[03:29.68]Mr. Vavi responds: you are so wrong.
[03:32.45]The documents also include an apparent demand for payment of 2million rand, around 200,000 dollars.
[03:38.88]Zwelinzima Vavi has denied the accusation of rape which he says is part of plot to unseat him as general secretary of Cosatu,
[03:45.94]South Africa’s most powerful trade union federation.
[03:48.98]A car bomb has exploded near a Turkish embassy building in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
[03:54.96]At least three people were killed among them a Turkish police officer guarding the building and at least one of the attackers.
[04:01.43]The Islamist group al-Shabab said it carried out the attack.
[04:04.84]It has in the past targeted Turkish institutions which it says are spreading secularism.
[04:10.20]Turkey has been an active supporter of the Somali government.
[04:13.26]Polls have closed in the Gulf emirate of Kuwait where people have been voting in the second parliamentary election in less than a year.