Namibia: Steinhoff and Access to Information – – What’s At Stake?

Do Steinhoff’s private interests trump the public interest in knowing exactly what happened in South Africa’s biggest corporate fraud? That’s the question at the heart of our case for access to the full Steinhoff forensic report.

During the Supreme Court of Appeal’s (SCA) hearing of Steinhoff’s appeal against the high court order that it disclose the investigative report into the company’s collapse, Judge Pieter Meyer made a comment that neatly summarised the case. He said that had he been a…