Working Group on the Audit of Extractive Industries.

Speaker Profiles Steering Committee Meeting 2018

Jan van Schalkwyk

Executive in the Auditor-General’s Office

In 2015, he was appointed as the Executive in the Auditor-General’s Office, where he takes responsibility for the coordination of the Auditor-General’s engagement with the rest of the organization, as well as the Auditor-General’s international and local stakeholder programs. He also remains quite involved in the INTOSAI community, most notably in the INTOSAI Capacity Building Committee, which operates under chairmanship of the Auditor-General of South Africa.

Mr. Pieter Alberts

Monitoring and Analysis
Financial Intelligence Centre

Pieter is a Senior Operations Manager in the Monitoring and Analysis Department of the Financial Intelligence Centre responsible for the Investigative Support Service.  Prior to this position he was with Deloitte Forensics.  In 2010 he resigned from the Commercial Crime Unit of the South African Police Service with more than 20 years of experience in the investigation of serious commercial crime. His last position in SAPS was at the Serious Economic Offences Unit which is part of the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) (“Hawks”)

Cobus Botes

Manager, International Relations, AGSA

Cobus Botes is the senior manager responsible for the international relations of the AGSA. At the same time he is a member of the Secretariat for INTOSAI’s Capacity Building Committee.
He holds a Masters Degree in Public Leadership, and has extensive experience of SAI cooperation with Parliaments, parliamentary oversight and capacity building in various contexts.

Ms. Rofhiwa Irene Singo

Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Mineral Resources of South Africa (DMR)

Ms. Singo is the Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Mineral Resources of South Africa (DMR) where she has worked since July 2013. She also serves as a member in the Audit and Risk Committee of the council for geoscience, Mining Qualification Authority.

She has previously worked at the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, Data Centrix LTD, Auditor-General South Africa, University of Venda and Standard bank.

Ms. Singo is an Associate General Accountant (South Africa), a Member of IODSA, and holds a postgraduate degree in Executive leadership (UCT).

Keamogetswe “Keamo” Kuypers

Manager Case Selection Transfer Pricing (SARS)

  • Bachelor of Accounting – Rhodes University
  • Higher Diploma in Tax Law – University of Johannesburg
  • Certificate in Country Risk Analysis and Emerging Markets – Fordham University, New York
  • SAIT General Practitioner

Areas of Specialty

  • Audit, including Information Systems Audit
  • Public sector accounting
  • Corporate Tax and Incentives
  • VAT, including e-commerce considerations and the municipal VAT landscape
  • Excise
  • Transfer Pricing and International Tax
  • Expatriate Tax and policy drafting
  • Personal Income Tax
  • Cross-border Finance
  • Tax Accounting
  • Process Reviews including ERP configuration
  • Contract Review and Drafting
  • Business Process Re-engineering
  • Consulting on growth and transactions beyond South Africa

Past Experience

  • Volkswagen, Deloitte, SAB Ltd, Accenture, Nestle, PPC Ltd, EY