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Just to avoid any speculation...KPMG are an auditing firm in the news in SA at the moment, and have a long history with SANParks:

The South African National Parks Ethics Line

Unethical conduct can impact significantly on the health of any organisation. SANParks is however, totally committed to the objective of a business environment that is open, honest and transparent at all times.

We are also committed to our role as good corporate citizens and are taking a stand against crime in South Africa, including the prosecution of offenders irrespective of their status. To be effective in that objective, we want to eliminate all practices that are in blatant disregard of the law and our Board’s policies and procedures.

In this context, and after careful consideration by the SANParks Executive Committee, it has been decided to introduce a completely confidential Ethics Line where irregularities can be reported. The extent of such reporting can be based on knowledge of such irregular actions or where strong suspicion may exist. This reporting mechanism is totally confidential and is done to an external service provider. In doing this, we are following the example of leading companies in South Africa and are keeping in line with best practice throughout the corporate world.

KPMG Ethics Line, a company with proven expertise in this particular area of operation, is managing the line on behalf of SANParks.
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A tender was issued for the sale of white rhino to private land owners who fulfil a number of requirements, including habit and security,” Dlamini said.

Poachers killed 1 217 rhinos in South Africa in 2014, including more than 800 in Kruger National Park, up from a total of 1 004 in 2013. The country has a population of about 20 000 rhinos.


Dlamini said the tender process was in the adjudication phase, with a team including auditors from KPMG, National Treasury and scientists assessing properties to ensure they would provide a suitable and secure habitat.

The sale forms part of a translocation programme begun in October 2014 to move some rhino out of poaching hotspots in the Kruger National Park.

About R32-million of land had also been purchased as part of the creation of “rhino strongholds” where rhinos would be kept to allow the population to grow, SANParks said.


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Thu, 30 Jun 2005




SOUTH African National Parks (SANParks) launched a new award for conservation, called the Kudu Awards. The awards recognise conservation excellence in a variety of categories. The recipients were: *Corporate Contribution to Conservation Award: KPMG (corporate award), Endangered Wildlife Trust (corporate award), and Ernie Blom, former chairman of Honorary Rangers (individual award); *Media Award: Tumelo Matloha, SABC; *Community Contribution to Conservation Award: Zanethemba Non-Profit Organisation; *Environment Education Award: Cheryl Ogilvie, Tshwane University of Technology. Along with the external awards, SANParks handed out internal awards to staff who performed well over the past year. Said Dr David Mabunda, ceo of SANParks, on the awards, “As an organisation, we are very pleased that there are individuals and companies who, over the years, have contributed immensely in helping us fulfil our conservation mandate. Through these awards, we would like to honour their dedication while appealing to others to help us in this regard.” (Darren Sandras) [/color]

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JOHANNESBURG – The Auditor General of South Africa on Tuesday terminated contracts with KPMG and Nkonki.

The two embattled audit firms did work for the office of the Auditor General on public sector contracts.

Auditor General Kimi Makwetu stressed the terminations are not a judgement of the capabilities of individuals at the firm.

Rather, he says issues around the two firms have been concerning and pose significant risk to the reputation of his office.

Last year, he announced he would continue to secure the services of KPMG SA, limited to the audits that were already allocated to the firm at the time while waiting for investigations to conclude.

However, recent scandals involving VBS Mutual Bank have taken the scandal to new levels.

"Recent media reports relating to the external audit of VBS Mutual Bank and the conduct of KPMG audit partners are some of the reasons that prompted the decision to withdraw all KPMG audit mandates with immediate effect," Makwetu said in a statement.



On the termination of Nkonki Inc.’s contract, Makwetu said recent media reports on matters arising from the shareholder transactions involving the firm were of “grave concern and pose significant risk on the reputation of his office through the statutory audits contracted” to the company.


Makwetu says his office's main priority now is to closely work with all interested stakeholders in the quest to maintain and further improve the confidence that the public places on the external audit function in the public sector.

"We are part of endeavours to help mend the image of the accounting/auditing profession, which has received some reputational dents – most of these self-inflicted – in the recent past."

Another auditing firm, Deloitte, has also been questioned for work done for embattled global retailer Steinhoff.

Steinhoff stands accused of cooking its books, putting the accounting profession in South Africa under extreme scrutiny and furthermore, private sector fraud.

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No way to find an honest company in SA 0*\

In order to fight corruption it is mandatory to find someone honest to investigate, but it seems to be an impossible task :evil:


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Power corrupts and total power corrupts totally!


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Grant Thornton has taken over internal audits, with Auditor General overseeing.

SANParks outsourced internal audit services to Grant Thornton (which later merged with BDO), however the Chief Audit Executive oversees the outsourced internal audit services, as per the provisions of National Treasury Regulations. The Audit and Risk Committee approves the charter, audit plan and budget of internal audit and the Committee is satisfi ed that Internal Audit performed its duties in accordance with the audit plan and charter. Internal Audit attends and presents its fi ndings to the Audit and Risk Committee. Internal Audit expressed general satisfaction with the effectiveness of internal controls but highlighted areas that require improvement. The Committee constantly monitors progress on how management resolves issues raised by Internal Audi

Significant Irregular Expenditure found, it seems:


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http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1. ... 19_Web.pdf

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