Chilling: Mbali (centre) and Khanyi enjoy a drink with Linda Moeketsi at ZAR in Sandton last week. Picture by Mabuti Kali

‘Witchcraft!’ This animal skin stole and muthi were apparently left by Khanyisile Mbau at Theunis Crous’s Michelangelo Towers apartment. Picture by Tshepo Kekana

Queen of bling Khanyi Mbau is back in the news: this time for allegedly trying to stab her tycoon lover Theunis Crous during a squabble.

The on-off-on-off relationship between the two is off again following a spat on Thursday night at the plush love nest they shared now and then at the Michelangelo hotel in Sandton, Joburg.

When contacted for comment, Khanyi hung up several times, but her manager Linda Moeketsi says Khanyi has been trying to leave the construction tycoon for a while now.

Crous, who recently offered to take Mbau as his second wife, invited journalists into the love nest on Friday morning, hours after he had thrown Khanyi out following an argument and her alleged threat to stab him.

He had earlier duped Khanyi, telling her he was going out of town on business for a few days.

But in the middle of the night he turned up at the 16th floor penthouse and found Khanyi “stark naked” with a female friend, Mbali.

An argument ensued and Khanyi dashed into the kitchen, returning with a knife in hand, threatening to stab him, he claims.

“I wrestled the knife out of her hand.

“She ran into another room and returned with a handful of what looked like salt, which she threw in my face.

“At that time she was speaking unintelligibly in a language I didn’t understand,” Crous says.

He threw her out.

The next morning, in the presence of journalists and the police, whom he had called in, Crous and some maids packed up Khanyi’s belongings.

They then produced a stole and lots of powdery wrappings, which they claimed were muthi.

An incensed Crous took a picture of his “findings” with his cellphone and sent it by MMS to Khanyi with the message: “I found your stuff, you witch.”

Crous claims that Khanyi had previously threatened to jump off the high-rise building when he tried to ditch her.

He then relented, fearing for her life.

“I should have thrown that thing out months ago when I learnt of her lies through a private investigator,” he said, accusing her of messing around with a Togolese lover on the side.

“She thought I didn’t know about it. He can have her. I’m done with that trash,” he said.

Moeketsi says Crous’s claims are nonsense: “He has accused her of bewitching him in the past but always went back to her.

“What I know is that Khanyi’s been wanting to leave him for a long time now because he was too controlling. For all we know he could have planted the stuff in the apartment.

“Khanyi is sane, so what is this story about (attempting) suicide?”

Primrose Crous says she’s not surprised about the findings.

“I knew she had put a spell on my husband,” she says.

“But he’s back home now, where he belongs. I stood by him and still do.

“Our love is strong and the fact that he’s back proves it.”