Tsakani Maluleke: From supermarket till to Auditor-General

Tsakani Maluleke learnt about accountability at the till of her family’s supermarket, where she started working as a cashier at the age of nine.

The money was never hers, she had to account for every cent at the end of each day, and there were consequences when it came up short.

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Decades later, as South Africa’s first female Auditor-General, she applies the same principle to public money.

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With one year left of her seven-year term, Maluleke spoke to Bronwyn Nielsen on The Executive Exchange

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They discussed why headlines about irregular expenditure miss the point, the biggest misconception about her office, whether consequence management is finally catching up, and the youth unemployment crisis that keeps her awake at night.

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