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NKUHLU DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING
 
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The Department of Accounting is recognised as a ‘flagship’ department of the University. Its programmes are offered on both the Alice and the East London campuses. It is well resourced and the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) accredits all of its programmes.

The current Head of the Department is Mr. Temba Zakuza

About the Head Of Department

Mr. Temba Zakuza has been in academia since 1998 as junior lecturer at the University of Cape Town (UCT) also did a Bachelors degree in Accounting with the University of the North now known as Limpopo.  He completed his PGDipAcc at UCT in 1998, qualified in 1999 and moved to University of Transkei now as Walter Sisulu University as a financial accounting and management accounting lecturer.  He assumed the senior lecturer position in 2000 and acting HOD position. He moved to University of Port Elizabeth now known as Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and lectured accounting 3 and auditing.  He joined the newly formed Nkonki Inc. Audit firm in Johannesburg as part of the founding members.  He subsequently founded T.S Zakuza & Beseti firm originally based in Durban and relocated to King Williams Town in Eastern Cape. He joined Fort Hare 2005 in Alice, lectured financial Accounting, and lectured Auditing in East London.

 He took over the reigns of the accounting department of UFH in November 2006. 

  • He is the past second Vice President of ABASA
  • Has been a member of various committees at SAICA.
  • Previously a member of  Edcom
  • Acting director in School of business of enterprise (UFH)

CURRENTLY

  •  Trustee of the Thuthuka board of Trustees at SAICA

  •  Board member of Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) appointed by minister

  •  Chairman of the education committee of IRBA

  •  Member of IRBA:                  

       Monitoring committee

        Examinations committee

        Bursary trust fund