Dirk Prinsloo threatened to kill former advocate Cezanne Visser and her mother, the Pretoria High Court heard on Monday.
He also planned to murder his former wife, Visser testified.
She said Prinsloo had after their arrest threatened to kill her or her mother if she did not stand by him.
She had moved back into his house out of fear that he would carry out his threats.
Visser, also known as Advocate Barbie, has pleaded not guilty to 14 charges including indecent assault, rape and the manufacturing of child pornography.
Her defence is that she was coerced by her then boyfriend Prinsloo to perform the criminal acts.
The two were charged after a police raid on Prinsloo’s Pretoria home in 2002.
Prinsloo has since disappeared while on a trip to Russia.
Visser’s trial started afresh after the initial trial judge died in 2007.
On Monday, she testified that Prinsloo rented a car in January 2005, bought a disguise and a body bag and disappeared for about five days, telling her he knew where his former wife lived and was going to murder her.
”I had to meet him at a garage near my mother’s house. I waited and waited. At one stage a white minibus stopped next to me and someone knocked on my window,” Visser said.
”It was a man in Arabian dress, black hair, a dark skin and a little Arabian hat on his head.
”I only realised it was Dirk when I opened the window and he said ‘Hallo, doll’. He was wearing contact lenses.
”He gave me a briefcase with documents with instructions on who I should phone and what I must do.
”He said he was going to White River to search for his wife and murder her.”
Visser testified that she started referring to herself as Cezanne Prinsloo after a small ”wedding ceremony” at a holiday resort, during which Prinsloo told her they were now man and wife and would be regarded as such under common law.
She was ”not thinking with her legal brain” and accepted his decision.
Visser revealed that she had her nipples and private parts pierced.
He also once told her he did not approve her having sex with other men, but fantasised about seeing 10 black mine workers having sex with her while he watched.
Visser said she only had the courage to leave Prinsloo in about April 2005, when she got a job, a place to stay and had a support structure again. This time, she ignored his threats to kill her and her mother.
Visser said she now worked for a large company and had been involved in a stable relationship since last year.
She did not wanted to reveal the names of either her employer or her boyfriend.
The trial continues. — Sapa