Requirements for company registration

You must provide 3-5 proposed company names in order of preference. It is often a good idea to provide company names that describe your business activity, and possibly your business values. Give careful consideration when thinking of localising your company name with the name of your town or city, as you may expand and outgrow it.

It is also important to check if the name is available as a domain name for your website, as matching your company name and website domain name will make it easier for customers to find you on the internet. Finally, make sure your company name does not feature any sensitive words. If it does, you need to fulfil that word’s requirements for usage (which may be permission from the appropriate body or to meet the necessary criteria).

You must provide the Companies Registry with your new company’s business activity. This can be a rough idea of what you want to do for example mining or farming. We will then perfect the business activity to the standard of the Companies Registry standard when we prepare the Memorandum of Association.

• Full name(s) as shown on government issued identity documents
• National identity number or passport number
• Nationality
• Address

*Company directors should not be under the age of 16, undischarged bankrupt, disqualified and whose term of disqualification has not yet been spent and the auditor of the company.

When the shareholder is an individual;

• Full name(s) as shown on government issued identity documents
• Address

*Any individual person or corporate body can be a shareholder of a company.

When the shareholder is a corporate;

• Company/organisation name
• Company/organisation registration number
• Address of the corporate/organisation
• Company/organisation;s representatives name and address

• Physical address
• Postal address and
• Email address

*The company’s physical address should be a Zimbabwean address.

*Optional

• Full name(s) as shown on government issued identity documents
• National identity number or passport number
• Nationality
• Address

For our clients, we usual use Numeri Secretarial Services (Private) Limited as the appointed company secretary to show you take your compliance seriously.