Records last updated: 26 November 2024
Contact person: Karabo Rajuili
Current ongoing work
Open Ownership is engaged in providing support to the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission and other government stakeholders who are part of the Inter-Departmental Committee for Beneficial Ownership, which has included legal and systems support. In partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Commonwealth Africa Anti-Corruption Centre, we have delivered regional peer-learning events.
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
