Her testimony relates to count three of the charges against Shaik relating to allegations of corruption.

De Lille is currently leader of the Independent Democrats and first blew the whistle on possible irregularities in the multi-billion rand arms deal in 1999 when she was a member of the Pan Africanist Congress.

The State alleges that Shaik solicited a R500 000 per annum bribe for Deputy President Jacob Zuma from French arms company Thomson-CSF in exchange for protection from a probe into the arms deal.

On Monday, the former chair of parliament's standing committee on public accounts (Scopa), Gavin Woods, testified that Shaik's brother Chippy had "misinformed" Scopa that he had recused himself from meetings relating to the arms deal in which Schabir had an interest.

Woods said Chippy had been "extremely influential" throughout the process and at the time was chief of acquisition for the Department of Defence.

Chippy was present at the trial on Tuesday, sitting next to Schabir.

During Tuesday's sitting, Shaik's advocate Francois van Zyl contested the admissibility of documents before the court relating to de Lille's testimony.

Van Zyl said he had looked at the contents and they contained "all sorts of speculation" which could be damaging to a number of people and companies *1.

The document was used by de Lille when she first raised concerns about alleged irregularities in the deal in Parliament.

Woods was expected to continue his testimony once de Lille had finished.

With acknowledgement to Wendy Jasson da Costa and Sapa.

*1 Having seen this, I can say that it is mostly good stuff, but as Counsel for Accused 1 to 10 plus 12 says, this information "could be damaging to a number of people and companies".