State witness Dianne Muller looked former police head Jackie Selebi in the eye and told him he was a liar while she was testifying in the High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday.

"That is not the truth," Muller said angrily, turning in the witness stand to stare directly at Selebi in the dock as she spoke.

Muller — the ex fiancée of Selebi’s self proclaimed former friend Glenn Agliotti — was responding to a statement by defence lawyer Jaap Cilliers.

Cilliers told the court that Selebi — who is on trial on a corruption charge — denied ever receiving any payments from Agliotti.

On Wednesday, Muller testified about a weekend when she was in Sandton City shopping centre with Agliotti, Selebi, his wife and two children.

Clothing shopping

"We met outside Fubu [a clothing shop]. Mr Agliotti took the two boys and bought them shirts, jeans and shoes and whatever they wanted... Agliotti told the little Indian sales girl he would sort the bill out in the morning," she told the court.

On Thursday Cilliers said Selebi denied that a shopping trip to buy his children clothing at Fubu had ever happened.

"That is a lie," she replied immediately, turning once again to look directly at Selebi.

Judge Meyer Joffe asked Muller what Agliotti had told her he did for a living.

"When I met Mr Agliotti he told me he was doing import-export... He told me it was second-hand clothing, jeans and glass mugs and coffee cups... He never had an office."

Asked by Cilliers if he did any consultancy work in the mining industry, she said she never knew of anything like that for which he was being paid.

"He always dabbled in funny things"

"He always dabbled in funny things... I used to tell him he was a jack of all trades".

Muller finished testifying on Thursday morning. Her father and the financial director of her company, Martin Flint, will take the stand on Friday.

Court adjourned early after prosecutor Gerrie Nel told the court he needed to consult further with Flint.

He said Flint's testimony would not take more than a day and the court would then turn to a KPMG audit on Selebi's lifestyle as well as the Spring Lights account through which slain mining magnate Brett Kebble allegedly channelled payments to Agliotti.

Joffe was unhappy about what he deemed "wasting time".

"I really want the case to run," he said.

Muller has been warned that, like Agliotti, she would receive Section 204 indemnity from prosecution on various charges if she was found to have testified "frankly and honestly".

According to Section 204 of the Criminal Procedure Act a person may receive indemnity from prosecution in exchange for testifying for the State.

Selebi is facing a charge of corruption and another of defeating the ends of justice in connection with at least R1.2-million he allegedly received from Agliotti and others in return for favours.

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