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Article: Emotional accused tells of sms to Lotz; Van der Vyfer breaks down during testimony.(News)
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- Cape Argus (South Africa)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2007
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By FOUZIA VAN DER FORT
Court Reporter
Fred van der Vyver, on trial for the murder of his girlfriend Stellenbosch student Inge Lotz, showed a range of emotions while testifying for the second day in the Cape High Court.
At the start of court proceedings yesterday it was a confident Van der Vyver who told the court of work sessions he had attended in the days and hours before Lotz was found murdered in her Stellenbosch flat on March 16, 2005.
He explained that a US company had wanted to sell a software programme to Old Mutual where he worked and that it was the first big project he had been involved in.
Van der Vyver said that ...