From Ann Crotty: Finally, Steinhoff. Last week’s action in the Western Cape High Court was as fascinating as it was incomprehensible.
Thank goodness for Judge Lee Bozalek who gave voice to all those people trying to make sense of Steinhoff’s quirky deal-making.
"Does anybody who did not earn a fee from the restructuring proposal actually understand how the cashless loan from Lux Finco to Steinhoff actually works?"
It’s a shocking piece of accounting and legal work, and the increasingly obtuse attempts to explain it to Bozalek during last week’s court action proved just how shocking it was.
It was difficult not to feel enormous sympathy for the judge who was given a weekend to make sense of a 2 000-page document that was probably designed never to make sense to ‘outsiders’.
Everything in the world is only for those who have eyes to see it...