Maartens, a former Pretoria Local Prison inmate, testified on Tuesday that he was repeatedly raped between November 2001 and January the following year while awaiting trial.

He claimed he had suffered from a serious infection resulting from a venereal disease he contracted from the rapes.

Maartens was asked by Benedict Ndaba, for warders Richard Makhanya and Moses Malisa, why his allegations against them were not contained in his original affidavit.

Among other things, he claimed he had to pay Makhanya if he wanted to use the telephone or receive visitors. He said he did not complain because Makhanya had threatened to have him moved to another section.

He also claimed that Makhanya allowed known rapists in jail to move freely among other prisoners.

Maartens further alleged that Malisa had refused to take him to medical staff after he was raped, and declined him access to departmental investigators to lay a complaint.

"I put it to you that what you testified today about Messrs. Malisa and Makhanya is not true," Ndaba said.

"That is why their names are not mentioned in your affidavit, even though you said that you knew them well."

Maartens denied he was lying.

The hearing continues.