eBusiness Weekly
Enacy Mapakame
The Chartered Governance and Accountancy Institute in Zimbabwe (CGAIZ) has appointed Jonathan Dube as its new president.
Dube is the current head of finance and administration at the Competition and Tariff Commission.
Dube, who was previously one of the Institute’s two vice-presidents, was elected president at the institute’s recent annual general meeting, the first that has been held under the rebranded institute’s new name.
Previously it was known as the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Zimbabwe.
The institute rebranded last year to better reflect the institute’s focus on governance. The CGAIZ is the Zimbabwe division of the Chartered Governance Institute Global (CGIG) and an associate member of the International Federation of Accountants.
Dube holds Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Commerce Accounting (Honours) degrees. A registered public accountant and member of several professional accounting bodies, he has held managerial positions in both the public and private sector in such varied sectors as health, petroleum, manufacturing, agribusiness and agrochemicals.
He is an expert on International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
Dube said it would take time for people to adjust to the institute’s change in name, name of its qualification and designation of its members from chartered secretaries to chartered governance professionals.
He said good governance was critical for all organisations and was an important consideration for potential investors and essential in the fight against corruption.
“We cannot eliminate corruption completely but we can minimise it. If you look at competitive indexes related to corruption, you will see that there is no country which has totally zero corruption,” he said adding CGAIZ and its members, along with other professional bodies, had a role to play in combating corruption.
Insurance Institute of Zimbabwe general manager George Chikava and Lifneth Moyo, who is leading the Opportunities for Youth Employment Programme were elected vice-presidents of the institute.
Letitia Gaga, a past-president of the institute, was chosen as the Zimbabwe division’s CGI Global representative.
