who is makhosi khoza?

Makhosi Khoza is chair of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) in the KwaZulu Natal legislature. She also serves on the finance and economic development and tourism committees. She is the former CEO of the South African Local Government Association and the KwaZulu-Natal Local Government Association. A former deputy mayor of the Pietermaritzburg municipality at the age of 25, Makhosi is also a former manager of Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank. She is the founder of Africa Governance Transformation and has lectured at the University of Natal and the University of Witwatersrand. Makhosi developed the governance concepts of Processes, Resources, Systems, and Structures (PRASS) and Transformation Through Total Quality Management (3TQM). She holds four degrees, including a PhD in administration.
Currently Member of Parliament, RSA serving on the Standing Committee on Finance. She has just completed a study on black African Languages logic and intelligence focusing on isiZulu as a case study compared with English as an international & business language.  Ground breaking findings is that isiZulu language is mathematically formulated and Science rules inclined.  Makhosi has published the first bilingual isiZulu/ English textbook and Translator. Currently, the KwaZulu-Natal is piloting it.
She has written four books, entitled Tough Women Bleed in Success, A Cry from the Heart, and Being Yourself, Representing Others: A Guide for Local Government Councilors. She is a Fellow of the sixth class of the Africa Leadership Initiative-South Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Dr. Makhosi Busisiwe Khoza is a former Member of Parliament and served in the Portfolio Committee on Economic Development. She is also a former chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration as well as the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and Finance in the KZN Legislature and has over 20 years of collective experience at both public and private sector institutions.

Dr Khoza’s previous employers include Msinsi Holdings, Akani Retirement Fund Administrators and the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) where she was at the helm, as well as Universities of the Witwatersrand Business School and Natal. She holds a PHD in Administration, a Master’s degree in Social Science (Policy and Development studies) and is a fellow at the Aspen Global Leadership Institute. Dr Khoza is currently studying towards a Master’s degree in Finance at the University of London.

Her achievements include ground-breaking research culminating in a textbook that unpacks the logic and sophistication of indigenous languages. Using South Africa’s lingua franca Zulu as an example, Dr Khoza has proven the consistency of Zulu with mathematical formulas and science principles. She has since created a language order called UZALO (Ubuntu Zulu Alphabetical Logic Order) comprising of a 12 noun cluster system which drives the construction of meaningful sentences.

In 2017, Ms Khoza cancelled her membership from the ANC and joined ActionSA.