The case against Glenn Agliotti, accused of the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble, was postponed on Monday by the High Court in Johannesburg.

State prosecutor Gerrie Nel asked for a postponement until Wednesday, with the agreement of Agliotti's defence team, which is also working on former police chief Jackie Selebi's corruption case.

Agliotti's bail was extended on the current conditions. His defence counsel asked to record the court proceeding independently, and was told by Judge Meyer Joffe to make an application to a higher court for permission to do so.

Kebble was shot dead in his car in Melrose, Johannesburg, on the night of 27 September 2005. Agliotti was arrested for the murder in November 2006.

While testifying as a State's witness in the case against Selebi in November last year, the convicted drug trafficker told the court that he would plead not guilty to the charge.

In his testimony in the Selebi case, Agliotti maintained that he was innocent of the murder while the real killers walked free.

"I had no role to play in it," Agliotti said in a video recording of a conversation he had with National Intelligence

Agency officials, which was played at the time in court . In the recording he also claimed the killing was an assisted suicide which was preceded by "dry runs" or rehearsals.

"It was an assisted suicide. Brett got into such financial trouble, he could not see the way out. He then planned it with [Clinton] Nassif and they planned it, they prayed about it, they had dry runs."

Agliotti alleges that Nassif, who was Kebble's former head of security, framed him after making a deal with the Scorpions. Nassif received indemnity for charges including murder after agreeing to be a State's witness against Selebi.

Agliotti alleges that Nassif and two hit men, referred to as "Smith" and "Schultz", were actually responsible for the crime. The State claims Agliotti conspired to "aid or procure commission or commit the murder of Kebble".

It alleges that it was initially decided that a tablet or poison should be obtained which would be given to Kebble to kill him. This idea was later abandoned and it was agreed that Kebble would be shot along a quite darkened street to make it look like an assassination.

The State has so far been unsuccessful in attempts to get Agliotti's co-accused in the murder, businessman John Stratton, extradited from Australia.