The 27-year-old South African national who claims to have been raped by her fellow countryman Judge Sirajuddin Desai in Mumbai wants to undergo counselling.

The alleged victim, who returned home on Wednesday on the same flight as Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, estranged wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, said she wants to return to normal life.

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"I have been going through hell with the local and foreign media chasing me all the time since the incident," she said in an interview with the local SABC national radio and television news.

"I don't want to talk about the incident because it is sub-judice. However, I believe the truth will come out in the end," she told the national broadcaster at her home in Bela Bela in Limpopo province, about 100km north of Pretoria.

Her husband said he wanted his wife to forgive the 'rapist'.

"The fact is we want to forgive Desai and to forget. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela spoke to my wife; she spoke a lot of wisdom and we have to sit down and decide," he said.

The woman claims she was raped in a hotel on Sunday. In her complaint to the Mumbai police, she alleged that Desai sexually assaulted her after inviting her to his room at the hotel late on Saturday night.

The AIDS activist was staying at a five-star hotel in South Mumbai and she and the judge were part of the South African delegation that was in the city to participate in the World Social Forum.