18 ‘I’m deeply hurt, because… I don’t know what I am going to do about this, because now even what has happened between the two of us, we didn’t just do it of our own or elope and go and get married, we involved the elders and this is a traditional wedding.’ [38] The appellant was not unduly concerned when the complainant ran away in the Eastern Cape. He testified that: ‘This is a normal thing, always when a makoti is a newlywed, normally she does do those things of running away and coming back, running away and they bring her back, but when the time goes on, she settles down and stays…’ [39] The appellant’s sister-in-law testified that she had not noticed any problems between the appellant and the complainant during their time together in Cape Town. The complainant had not expressed any unhappiness or concerns. The complainant had in fact told her that she did not wish to return to school because she hated it. She had never locked the complainant in the house. She knew about the wound to the complainant’s leg which she described as serious, and maintained that the complainant had blamed herself for the injury. She had taken the complainant to the doctor for treatment. She was ‘amazed’ by the complainant’s allegations against the appellant. The complainant had told her that she had run away in the Eastern Cape ‘because she didn’t want to get married [at] that time, she just wanted to have a good time and fun as a single woman’. The complainant had subsequently changed her mind and decided to remain “married” to the appellant.