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Delinquent corporate management in the South African statutory context

Full twenty years have passed since the publication of the main report of the Van Wyk-De Vries Commission of Enquiry into the companies Act1 and nearly twenty years have run since the promulgation of the present Companies Act. No 61 of 1973. In the interim a new corporate entity was introduced into...

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Main Author: Berthold, P J
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Published: Centre for Law and Society 2026
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description Full twenty years have passed since the publication of the main report of the Van Wyk-De Vries Commission of Enquiry into the companies Act1 and nearly twenty years have run since the promulgation of the present Companies Act. No 61 of 1973. In the interim a new corporate entity was introduced into South African law through the medium of the Close Corporations Act. No 69 of 1984. Both these Acts contain provisions which provide for the lifting of the corporate veil, which the Courts have shown a reluctance to do (save in cases concerning the fiscus), since the notion of a separate and distinct personality of a corporation distinct from the members who make it up was adopted in the Salamon saga. 2
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/42876 Delinquent corporate management in the South African statutory context Berthold, P J Law Full twenty years have passed since the publication of the main report of the Van Wyk-De Vries Commission of Enquiry into the companies Act1 and nearly twenty years have run since the promulgation of the present Companies Act. No 61 of 1973. In the interim a new corporate entity was introduced into South African law through the medium of the Close Corporations Act. No 69 of 1984. Both these Acts contain provisions which provide for the lifting of the corporate veil, which the Courts have shown a reluctance to do (save in cases concerning the fiscus), since the notion of a separate and distinct personality of a corporation distinct from the members who make it up was adopted in the Salamon saga. 2 2026-02-20T09:59:31Z 2026-02-20T09:59:31Z 1992 2024-07-19T10:50:44Z Thesis / Dissertation Masters LLM http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42876 en eng application/pdf Centre for Law and Society Faculty of Law University of Cape Town
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Delinquent corporate management in the South African statutory context
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title Delinquent corporate management in the South African statutory context
title_full Delinquent corporate management in the South African statutory context
title_fullStr Delinquent corporate management in the South African statutory context
title_full_unstemmed Delinquent corporate management in the South African statutory context
title_short Delinquent corporate management in the South African statutory context
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