One of Investec chair Fani Titi’s employees was reduced to tears by politically connected businessman Peter-Paul Ngwenya’s "bad" treatment when he stormed their offices demanding money‚ the Randburg Magistrate’s Court was told. "There were some tears because I was shocked‚" Josiah Ndlovu‚ a financial manager at MRC Media‚ said on Wednesday. Titi was a chairperson at MRC Media at the time. Ngwenya‚ who spent almost five years on Robben Island‚ is facing two counts of contravening a protection order Titi was granted against him and one count of crimen injuria for calling Titi a "k****r" in an SMS. In the same SMS‚ Ngwenya tells Aqeel Patel‚ the MD of MRC Media that "you will bleed" and that Titi "will see his mother"‚ which Titi regarded as a threat to his life since Ngwenya knew his mother was dead. The conflict between Ngwenya and Titi‚ who had been friends for 20 years‚ stems from a multi-million-rand deal that went sour. Ngwenya claims that Titi owes him close to R54m. It degenera...

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