He testified about the deal at the Arms Procurement Commission in May 2014, and was highly critical of the conduct of former Defence Minister Joe Modise and former SADF Chief of Acquisition Shamin "Chippy" Shaik.

[3][4][8] Amid the precarious negotiations to end apartheid, the early 1990s in South Africa were marked by political violence, commonly alleged by the African National Congress to be attributable to a state-aligned "third force."

[11] In December 1992, in what is sometimes known as "the Night of the Generals,"[12] de Klerk met with Steyn and, the next day, announced that 23 SADF members had been compelled to retire or suspended pending further investigation.

According to SADF Chief Georg Meiring, the investigation was initiated in January 1993 under the Attorneys-General of the Transvaal and Witswatersrand, but was unable to substantiate Steyn's allegations.

[7] Ultimately, Wouter Basson, one of the generals suspended in December 1992,[11] was the only SADF official to face criminal charges for activities investigated by the Steyn Commission.