"He's just focused and taking serious amounts of notes. On every point that a witness has raised he's given us feedback and instructions, so he's focused," said his attorney, Daniel Witz.
On Tuesday, Judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe heard details from Mark Thompson, a colleague and friend of Rohde, who tried for 40 minutes to resuscitate Susan in a bathroom at Spier wine estate in Stellenbosch, with Rohde sitting next to him pleading: "Mark, help me."
Rohde is accused of staging Susan's suicide after murdering her in July 2016.
Some of the details recalled by Thompson had him gulping, and Witz said it was for this reason that he did not want his daughters to attend the trial.