Markus Jooste: A thoroughly unpleasant man
Few will mourn the former Steinhoff CEO who killed himself rather than face the music for one of South Africa’s biggest frauds
24 March 2024 - 00:00
Markus Jooste, who died on Thursday at the age of 63 after shooting himself on a cliff path near his home in Hermanus — the walls of which are daubed with graffiti such as “fraudster”, “con artist” and “psychopath” — was the CEO of Steinhoff and mastermind of South Africa’s greatest corporate scam...
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