Markus Jooste’s former girlfriend, Berdine Odendaal, has been unsuccessful in her application to force the Reserve Bank to release R150,000 a month for her living costs and extra cash for legal fees, after she depleted almost R1.7m in her account in a year. 

The Reserve Bank suspected that Odendaal’s properties at Paarl’s Val de Vie estate, vehicles and cash came from Steinhoff International businesses via Jooste’s Mayfair Speculators...

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