13 [27] The complainant was found by the trial court to be an excellent witness whose version was not undermined in any material respect. She was still visibly traumatised when testifying almost two years after the events. [28] The complainant’s mother’s testimony may be summarised as follows. During February 2010 she discovered that the complainant had been given away in a customary marriage by her own mother and brother (who is the uncle to whom the complainant referred during her testimony). She would never have consented to the complainant’s “marriage” because she was too young. She went home the following week to discover that the complainant was indeed no longer there. She could obtain very little information as to who the complainant had “married” or where she was. Lobola of R8 000 was paid to the maternal grandmother, and in turn later handed to her. The complainant’s mother subsequently ascertained that the complainant had run away from her “marital home” when the appellant came to inform her brother. Despite her search the complainant could not be found. On the following day she received information that the complainant was hiding in a forest and sent word for her to come home at a time when her mother and brother would not be there. The complainant returned in an hysterical state, crying uncontrollably. She told her mother that she did not want to be married and that the appellant was a violent man. She told the complainant to pack a bag and early the next morning sent her to hide at her family house until she could borrow money to send the complainant by taxi to where she worked.