{"id":174171,"date":"2024-06-09T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-steinhoff-and-access-to-information-whats-at-stake\/"},"modified":"2024-06-09T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T10:40:08","slug":"namibia-steinhoff-and-access-to-information-whats-at-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-steinhoff-and-access-to-information-whats-at-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Steinhoff and Access to Information &#8211; &#8211; What&#8217;s At Stake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>Do Steinhoff&#8217;s private interests trump the public interest in knowing exactly what happened in South Africa&#8217;s biggest corporate fraud? That&#8217;s the question at the heart of our case for access to the full Steinhoff forensic report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\">During the Supreme Court of Appeal&#8217;s (SCA) hearing of Steinhoff&#8217;s appeal against the high court order that it disclose the investigative report into the company&#8217;s collapse, Judge Pieter Meyer made a comment that neatly summarised the case. He said that had he been a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406060693.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do Steinhoff&#8217;s private interests trump the public interest in knowing exactly what happened in South Africa&#8217;s biggest corporate fraud? That&#8217;s the question at the heart of our case for access to the full Steinhoff forensic report. During the Supreme Court of Appeal&#8217;s (SCA) hearing of Steinhoff&#8217;s appeal against the high court order that it disclose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[6450,258,256,422,4706,724,257,254,9744,17190,13199],"class_list":["post-174171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-information","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stake","tag-steinhoff","tag-whats"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}