While Glenn Agliotti, may have given him the affectionate nicknames, "Jackie", "Jax" and "Chief", Jackie Selebi cut a lonely figure in the High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday.

Dressed in a dark grey suit with a light blue shirt and blue tie, Selebi appeared drawn and tired.

He sat just metres from the man he had once called his "friend, finished and klaar" and who now testified against him in his corruption case.

With his bulky body turned away from Selebi, Agliotti sat, then stood in the witness stand, flanked by three water bottles, as he detailed their nearly decade-long friendship.

Speaking slowly and clinically, Agliotti described the matching clothes and shoes he had bought for Selebi as well as family gifts.

He also spoke of their coffee dates, dinners in Melrose with the Kebbles and the money that characterised interactions he described at various points as "good and cordial" and "close".

Going through invoices for expensive clothes brought at Sandton City clothing stores, Agliotti told the court he did not like wearing certain knitwear and also only wore Hugo Boss golf shirts.

During his testimony Agliotti painted himself as a general agony aunt to his friends and associates.

He said that at the time he met the Kebbles, it was to help them, via his relationship with Selebi, to solve "a whole host of problems".

"They were obviously grateful and understood I had a close relationship with the accused because they had major difficulties before that".

He also said Selebi was "obviously grateful" to him for payments as small as R5000 ? compared to the $1-million "consultancy fee" Agliotti asked Brett Kebble for access to Selebi.

Selebi also received two larger amounts of R200 000 and R120 000 from Agliotti, in cash packaged in large envelopes.

he court heard that not just Agliotti, but even shop assistants at Greys in Sandton, referred to Selebi as "chief".

Agliotti's official pseudonym as a police informer was "Piccone".

In his testimony, he spoke of a project his ex-fiance ran in 2001, called "African Hope" and which Selebi termed a "fantastic idea".

It had involved United States actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger leading a torch run from Robben Island to the "steps of Parliament", to "raise funds for special Olympics which is for mentally challenged kids".

Agliotti told the court of a Madame Cheng, a "certain Chinese lady" who had offered him a "ridiculous" amount of money to transport two containers of "tiles" ? which were really mandrax tablets to the value of R80-million as well as abalone factory equipment.

Agliotti later received a R100 000 reward from the police for informing them about the drug consignment.

During the court lunch break on Tuesday, Selebi walked back into the nearly empty court room.

Asked by journalists if he did not rather want to go for lunch, he replied: "I don't have the envelope to buy lunch. I'm waiting for the big envelope to buy lunch."

Selebi also said he did not want to sit down in the witness box during the break.

"That bench is too hard. I think I'll bring a cushion for the cross examination", an experience which, he said, would "be interesting".