STEINHOFF
SIMON LINCOLN READER: Jooste partisans open the way for collective punishment
Associating Johann Rupert with people like Markus Jooste and Ben Le Grange is exactly the same as accusing someone like Mavuso Msimang of thinking and behaving in the same way as Faith Muthambi
At the construction site of what was Markus Jooste’s newest Hermanus property acquisition, a sign in capital letters reads unequivocally: "NO ENTRY". One of the conditions of the sale of the land to Jooste was that he was forbidden from obstructing the view. This was quite thoughtful of the previous owners, because if Jooste builds houses in the same way he delivers annual reports, the neighbourhood would be treated to something that resembled a game of caravan Tetris. While it is important to spare a thought for pension beneficiaries, who with their families might have taken a bus to Grotto beach on New Year’s Day and caught passing sight of it from the window, London is also looking at the extensions of the phrase NO ENTRY in the wake of the resignation of Steinhoff’s chief financial officer, Ben le Grange. It appears that many South Africans have taken too seriously the rubbish that was Jooste’s last note to employees, in which he talks about "living the Steinhoff dream" and make...
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