What was to be a celebration of National Cleavage Day turned into a nightmare for a Cape Town woman who was allegedly given an ice pack to sit on to ease her pain after being raped by up to four members of a foreign rugby team.

Yesterday, two of the four men, aged 40 and 24, appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court and applied for bail.

They were arrested at the Protea Hotel, in Sea Point, on Saturday.

Investigating officer Constable Mzukisi Tswina testified that the woman "was in Long Street in Cape Town to celebrate the day, which was referred to as Cleavage Day", when she met the men.

He said the men asked if she knew of a club that they could go to. She took them to Cubana, in Green Point, and later to Bronx, where they danced and drank until the club closed.

The woman then gave them a lift to their hotel.

At the hotel, Tswina testified, one of the men said she was too drunk to drive home and he insisted that she sleep on the spare bed in his room, to which she agreed.

"While she was asleep, she felt someone on top of her ... he penetrated her and was having sex with her," Tswina said. He said she was also sodomised.

Tswina said the woman wrapped herself in a duvet which was pulled off her by another man who forced himself on her, after which she was raped or sodomised by another two men.

After the ordeal, a man whom she believed to be a "team doctor" obtained some ice for her to sit on, and ointment, "because she had pain".

"The guy who she refers to as the team doctor offered to compensate her with some money - in exchange she should not call the police and not cause trouble," Tswina said. But the hotel manager, who had heard what was said, called the police.

The woman was able to identify only two of her alleged attackers.

In affidavits, both men accused her of being "promiscuous" and denied raping her. In his statement, the 24-year-old admitted to consensual sex.