Image: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo Wiese and his son, Jacob, are directors of the company, which refused to pay up after Promech drilled a borehole on the billionaire’s farm in Somerset West in 2011.
On top of the billions he lost in the Steinhoff implosion, Christo Wiese faces a bill of R73,000 after being ordered to pay a borehole driller who sued him.
And it was all “much ado about nothing”, says the judgment against the Shoprite chairman’s Lourensford Fruit Company.
