With the litigation handbrake dropped, we can ramp up this business tremendously and significantly add to the almost 1000 jobs we have created since August 2018," he added. Mostert said that an equally important consideration was the fact that their "participation in the settlement will allow South African class action participants to share in the settlement proceeds and address to some degree the losses they suffered at the hands of the Steinhoff scandal". "This has been a matter of landmark and historic litigation and we hope that it will pave the way for legislation that will not hobble the man on the street's ability to successfully participate in recovery processes of this nature." "To that end we respect Steinhoff's final position to accommodate this class of claimant in the Steinhoff global settlement," he added.