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South Africa stopped registering new close corporations in 2011, but hundreds of thousands of existing CCs trade on — run by members rather than directors, identified by numbers ending in /23. A CC suffix therefore guarantees pre-2011 vintage. Order the official record for any CC: members, status and registered details, in minutes.
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The CC was the small-business vehicle of pre-2011 South Africa — cheap, member-managed, minimal formality — and vast numbers of plumbing firms, workshops and family businesses still trade under CK numbers. Verifying one is routine: the record shows members, status, registered office and the registration vintage encoded in the number.
Because members are natural persons, the CC record gives unusually direct visibility of who stands behind the business — no shareholding layers to unwind.
The official record for the close corporation: registered name, CK registration number, status, registered office and member details as published — delivered as structured data plus a branded PDF by email in minutes. One-time payment, from €4.99.
No — the Companies Act of 2008 closed the form to new registrations from mid-2011. Existing CCs continue indefinitely, so every genuine CC is a business with over a decade of history behind its number.
Members — up to ten natural persons who own and manage directly, without a board. The official record lists them, which for small businesses often means you are looking straight at the owners.
The same annual-return deregistration machinery as companies: a CC that stops filing slides toward deregistration and can lose legal personality. The live status field is the check.
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