5 [8] The complainant was instructed by her uncle to take off her school uniform and to put on different clothes. Her resistance to this instruction was ignored. Her uncle thereafter took her one hand and another man the other. She was removed from her home and taken to the house at which the appellant had noticed her a day or so earlier. On the way to this house she was introduced to the appellant for the first time and informed that he was to be her husband. [9] Having arrived at the appellant’s house in his home village, the complainant was immediately dressed in amadaki (specially designed attire for the new bride, or makoti, which was referred to in the trial as “the makoti attire or clothing”). She was instructed to partake in various traditional ceremonies as well as attending to certain household duties for the appellant, which, after resisting, she apparently did. It was during one of these ceremonies that the complainant allegedly became the appellant’s customary law wife. At a stage lobola of R8 000 was paid by the appellant to the complainant’s maternal grandmother, who subsequently gave it to the complainant’s mother. [10] The complainant was unhappy and ill at ease (the reasons and extent of this were in issue during the trial) and left her new marital home a few days into the marriage, hiding first in a nearby forest and then, on her mother’s instruction, at another house. She was found and promptly returned to the appellant by her own male family members two to three days later. Shortly thereafter the appellant informed the complainant that he would be returning to