Former SAA board member barred from practising as a CA and fined R6.1m
The Zondo report said Saica should investigate whether Yakhe Kwinana was suitable to work as a chartered accountant.
The Zondo report said Saica should investigate whether Yakhe Kwinana was suitable to work as a chartered accountant.
South Africa is a land of stark contrasts, and one of the most visible examples is how legislation is applied differently across various sectors of the economy. The financial services industry is one […]
National Treasury’s acting director-general, Ismail Momoniat, says mechanisms need to be put in place to ensure that the regulators are doing their job in respect of suspicious financial transactions, noting that Treasury does […]
Former National Treasury director-general Lungisa Fuzile says President Jacob Zuma became increasingly unhappy with Pravin Gordhan and Nhlanhla Nene because they were unwilling to sign off on decisions that risked the fiscus and […]
The Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) has confirmed that it dismissed a non-audit complaint against former SAA board member Yakhe Kwinana in 2018, “because a lack of evidence at the time of […]
Does repaying fees collected under dubious circumstances absolve companies from resultant damage? My article titled A wolf in sheep’s clothing, published last week, concerned the possible danger of involving firms identified in the […]
The release of the first of three publications on the findings of the Zondo commission has certainly put the cat among the pigeons. The last two reports, due for release at the end […]
The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (Saica) says it will investigate all members of the organisation mentioned in the Zondo Commission’s report into state capture. In a media statement on 5 January, […]
Nedbank says it committed no wrong in relation to the interest rate swap transactions it concluded with Airports Company SA (Acsa) between 2009 and 2011. The bank was responding to Acting Chief Justice […]
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has admitted that it dropped the ball in failing to identify corruption at SAA when it audited the company’s books between 2012 and 2016. In part 1 of his report on […]
My initial brief was to write an article on the FAIS Ombud’s annual report, but I thought it better not to start the new year on such a sombre note. Equally depressing was […]