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Auditor General Kimi Makwetu has died, his office confirmed Wednesday.
Makwetu died of lung cancer at the hospital on Wednesday after battling the disease since 2018, the attorney general’s office said in a statement.
“It is with great sadness and shock that we announce the passing of Auditor General Kimi Makwetu this afternoon,” said spokesperson Africa Boso.
Boso said that the audit office joined the Makwetu family in mourning his death.
“We ask the public to keep the family in their thoughts as they accept his passing and to provide them with privacy and space. When they are ready, the family will share details of how they would like to honor their loving husband and father, ”said Boso.
Former President Jacob Zuma appointed Makwetu as AG on December 1, 2013 for a seven-year term, which was to end on November 30. He will be replaced by Deputy Auditor General Tsakani Maluleke.
Makwetu was scheduled to appear in parliament last week for a farewell event, but was unable to attend because he was ill.
According to the Auditor General SA website, Makwetu was born in Cape Town and completed a Bachelor of Social Sciences at the University of Cape Town in 1989. He received a BCompt degree from the University of Natal (distance education in 1997) and was a qualified Chartered Accountant.
He began his career at Standard Bank and then worked at Nampak, completing his articles at Deloitte, where he rose to senior management before joining Liberty and Metropolitan Life in Cape Town.
He then moved to Gauteng in 2003 and worked at Liberty Life. Makwetu returned to Deloitte as a director in the firm’s forensic unit prior to his appointment as deputy auditor general in 2007.
Leave a wife and three children.
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