Editorial Board Members
Kent Karro CA(SA), MTA(SA), CPA(ISR), TEP
Kent is Managing Director of Crowe Taxation Cape (Pty) Ltd and the Chairman of the Editorial Panel of TCM. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1968 and has a post graduate degree in taxation from UCT. He is an honorary life member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) and former Chairman of its National Tax Committee. The South African Institute of Taxation (SAIT) has admitted Kent as a Master Tax Practitioner (SA). He specialises in the SA tax system and deals with South African exchange control regulations. Kent is also is a member of SAIPA and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). He is editor and contributor to the technical newsletters issued by his firm and also the African Footprint newsletter produced for Crowe Global in Africa.
Prof. Kevin Mitchell CA (SA)
Kevin is the founder and a director of Mitchells Tax Consultants, where he specialises in tax and estate planning. He is co-author of Graded Questions on Income Tax (LexisNexis), which is now in its 43 rd edition. For over two decades Kevin presented an annual tax update seminar for SAICA and other organisations. He served on SAICA’s Taxation Committee and moderated SAICA’s Special Examination in the Law of the Republic for 26 consecutive years. Kevin was appointed by the Minister of Finance to serve on the Sales Tax Advisory Committee and by the State President to serve on the Special Court for Hearing Income Tax Appeals. He was appointed a Honorary Professor of Law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Prof. Jennifer Roeleveld
Jennifer Roeleveld is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Commerce, University of Cape Town, where she is supervisor of Masters and PhDs in SA and international tax and Director of the Tax Unit for Fiscal Research; visiting Professor LLM program, Vienna University; President of the South African International Fiscal Association (IFA) and member of the Supervisory Board of IFA; member of the IBFD GTTC Editorial Board and author of articles 17 and 27 of the GTTC commentary; South African contributor to the IBFD Observatory on the Protection of Taxpayers’ Rights; associate member of the European Association of Tax Law Professors (EATLP); contributing author Juta’s Income Tax; Master Tax Practitioner (SA) and author of national and international journal articles and chapters in books.
Prof. Peter Surtees
Professor Peter Surtees practised as a Chartered Accountant (SA) in Bloemfontein for 19 years before joining the Rhodes University staff, where he rose to be head of the department of accounting. In 1998, he moved to Cape Town. He joined Deneys Reitz Attorneys (now Norton Rose Fulbright), as a director in the tax division until his retirement in 2015. He was also on the staff of the department of finance and taxation at the University of Cape Town from 1998 until the end of 2016, where he presented the MCom (Taxation) course. He now lives in Napier, from where he runs his taxation practice in all areas of taxation and estate planning. He is a member of the tax court.
Martie Foster
Martie is a CA(SA) and specialises in domestic and international corporate tax. Martie attended the Rand Afrikaans University where she obtained a B Comm (Accounting), B Comm (Hons) (Accounting with CTA) as well as H Dip (Tax Law) qualification. She also attended the University of Cape Town where she obtained a Masters in Taxation (International Tax) degree. She also obtained a Certificate in Financial Markets from the Academy of Financial Markets. She further obtained the Advanced Professional Certificate in International Taxation in April 2021 from the IBFD which is based in the Netherlands. Martie is a member of Corporate Law Alliance, an association of independent attorneys who collaborate to provide bespoke corporate law and tax services.
Prof. Deborah Tickle CA (SA)
Deborah is currently an adjunct associate professor at the University of Cape Town, where she lectures tax Masters students. As managing partner of the tax department at KPMG (Cape Town), she led the team for ten of the 31 years she spent consulting to large, listed and global clients of the firm. She serves on the Davis Tax Committee and has also served on the Southern Region (25 years) and National (9 years, one of which as deputy chair) tax committees of SAICA. She is also a trustee for the Children’s Hospital Trust and acts as a non-executive Director and audit committee member at Personal Trust. Over the years she has written many papers, articles and presented seminars.
Di Hurworth
Di is an admitted attorney, with over 25 years of tax experience. She has a BA LLB degree from the University of Cape Town (UCT), an LLM from the University of Cambridge and an H Dip Tax from UCT. After completing her legal articles with Francis Thompson and Aspden in Cape Town, Di joined the KPMG tax department in 1991, and was admitted as a partner in 2001. During her 18 years as partner, Di headed up the VAT division in Cape Town. She has extensive experience in VAT and has advised both local and international clients on the VAT implications of cross-border as well as domestic transactions, across a spectrum of industries, including oil and gas, shipping, mining, retail and financial services.