Former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste.
The man accused of masterminding South Africa’s biggest corporate fraud allegedly shot himself on a cliff path in Hermanus hours before he was due to hand himself over to authorities.
Yet more than two years later, the state still has not provided the kind of public transparency that would settle one of the country’s most persistent and explosive conspiracy theories.
No public funeral. No confirmed burial site. No publicly released post-mortem. No inquest date. No public viewing of the body. And no definitive public accounting from the institutions responsible for investigating the death of former Steinhoff boss, Markus Jooste.
Instead, there has been silence, fragmented disclosures, and a trail of unanswered questions that has allowed speculation to thrive.
