16 and foot were consistent with the complainant having been assaulted with a belt. [33] The appellant testified of the complainant’s visible unhappiness on their first night together. His evidence was that on the second night (while still in the Eastern Cape) he asked for sexual intercourse and this took place apparently with her consent. Thereafter he could ‘see a difference’ in the complainant. If his memory served him correctly she only disappeared after about a week. He went to her home to report this to the complainant’s uncle, who told him not to bother to keep looking for her because he (the uncle) would ensure her prompt return to the appellant as soon as she was found. [34] The complainant was indeed returned to the appellant by her male family members two days later. The reason which she gave for running away was that she had been afraid to ask for permission to visit her family and had thus sought to ‘escape’ from the appellant. He told her that there was no need to be afraid because his family would have granted her permission. However he was planning to return to Cape Town. According to the appellant, the complainant there and then willingly agreed to accompany him. They mutually agreed upon their date of departure and left for Cape Town a week later. By the time of their arrival in Cape Town he claimed that they ‘were getting along very well’.