Auditor-general Kimi Makwetu, my boss and mentor for the past eight years, left us last week. His death, at the age of 54, comes at a time when the auditing and accounting profession that he lived for is experiencing reputation-denting crises worldwide, most of them self-inflicted.

Kimi’s untimely passing is tragic; he was a visionary leader, pioneering initiatives locally and internationally to restore the reputation of this noble profession...

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