Fact Check — Is Markus Jooste really dead?

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Fact Check — Is Markus Jooste really dead?
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In late March, the news broke on South African news websites that Steinhoff fraudster Markus Jooste had died by suicide. But a few weeks later, conspiracy theories are swirling about whether Jooste is really dead.

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But it is highly unlikely that authorities would publically release this kind of information about a private citizen’s death, regardless of how controversial that citizen was.

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