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Woman raped by 'hubby-to-be':

News24: "Johannesburg - A 19-year-old woman was raped after she was kidnapped by a man who wanted to make her his wife, said Eastern Cape police on Sunday.
Captain Jackson Manatha said the 25-year-old man was following the old 'Xhosa Thwala Custom, where men would kidnap women and declare them their wives without consent and rape them'."

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