Records last updated: 04 April 2024
Contact person: Karabo Rajuili
Current ongoing work
We are engaged in providing support to the Financial Intelligence Centre, the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission and other government stakeholders who are part of the Inter-Departmental Committee for Beneficial Ownership. This has included legal and systems support. In partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, we have provided training to law enforcement authorities.
Committed to one or more
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Live registerFollowing the launch of one or more beneficial ownership registers, a country is labelled as Live register.
Implemented one or more
Implementation details
Master of the High Court Trust Beneficial Ownership Register
- Name
- Master of the High Court Trust Beneficial Ownership Register
- Scope
- Full-economy
- Register launched
- 2023
- Structured data publicly available
- No
- Published as BODS
- No
- Available via API
- No
Companies and Intellectual Property Commission Beneficial ownership register for companies and close corporations
- Name
- Companies and Intellectual Property Commission Beneficial ownership register for companies and close corporations
- Scope
- Full-economy
- Register launched
- 2023
- Threshold used to determine beneficial ownership
- 5%
- Structured data publicly available
- No
- Published as BODS
- No
- Available via API
- No
Commitment details
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- South Africa has made a commitment to beneficial ownership transparency as part of accessing funds through the IMF Rapid Financing Instrument. [15 July 2020] link to commitment
- South Africa included a commitment to beneficial ownership transparency in its 2020-2022 Open Government Partnership National Action Plan [14 January 2021] link to commitment
- South Africa included a commitment to implement a beneficial ownership register in its 2016-2018 Open Government Partnership National Action Plan [07 January 2016] link to commitment
