2 Court: Justice N J Yekiso, Justice V Saldanha et Justice J Cloete Heard: 22 August 2014, 24 October 2014 and 5 December 2014 Delivered: 23 March 2015 JUDGMENT The Court Introduction [1] On 7 November 2013 the appellant was convicted in the Wynberg regional court on one count of human trafficking, three counts of rape, one count of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and one count of common assault. All of the convictions pertain to a single complainant. [2] On 13 February 2014 the appellant was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment on the human trafficking count, 20 years’ imprisonment on the 3 rape counts (which were taken together for purposes of sentence), 6 months’ imprisonment on the count of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and 30 days imprisonment on the count of common assault. The trial court further ordered that 8 years of the sentence for human trafficking, as well as the sentences imposed for the two assaults, would be served concurrently with the sentence imposed for the rapes. The appellant was thus sentenced to an effective