Grietjie Verhoef is a Professor in Accounting, Economics, and Business History in the Department of Accountancy at the University of Johannesburg. Her research includes the development of the accountancy profession in South Africa in a comparative perspective with other Commonwealth countries; the reconstruction of colonial Gross Domestic Product for the second half of the nineteenth-century South African colonies; big business groups, family businesses in South Africa, globalization of African emerging market business, and the history and development of African business.