The partnership facilitates a programme at the North West University, which, according to the SIU, "aims to train and produce a new generation of forensic accountants". Mothibi said criminals and their criminality has become more complex and the use of forensic accountants in investigation is becoming a top requirement. Mothibi reflected that as recent as six years ago, the unit had a forensic accounting team that was under-capacitated. "At the time when I joined the [SIU]... back in 2016, as we did the analysis we found that we had just two forensic accountants and after a year or two, there were three. He said that as the SIU enacted its new strategy and organogram, it made more space for forensic accountants.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 31, 2022 16:14 UTC