Thembekile Kimi Makwetu
Thembekile Kimi Makwetu is a South African accountant, appointed in 2013 as Auditor-General of South Africa.Education
Makwetu was born in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1989, he graduated with a degree in Social Sciences from the University of Cape Town. After receiving a BCompt Honours degree from the University of Natal in 1997, he became a qualified chartered accountant.Career
He took a job with Standard Bank, and would go on to work at Nampak. He completed his articles of clerkship at Deloitte. He later went on to work for Metropolitan Life in Western Cape and for Liberty Life in Gauteng, before becoming a director in Deloitte's forensic unit. in 2007, he joined the Auditor-General's office as Deputy Auditor-General under Terence Nombembe.Auditor-General
On 1 December 2013, South African President Jacob Zuma appointed Makwetu Auditor-General of South Africa for a seven-year term. In February 2014 Makwetu drew attention to what he described as "wasteful" and "irregular" government spending. A later report from Makwetu in November 2015 said there had been a "slight improvement".
