Statutory Registers Every Zimbabwean Company Must Keep

Statutory registers are the official record of a company's ownership and management. They are the first thing an auditor, buyer or regulator asks to see — and the last thing most companies keep up to date.

Compliance note — statutory registers
The Companies and Other Business Entities Act [Chapter 24:31] requires companies to keep registers including a register of members, a register of directors and secretaries, and records of beneficial owners, together with minutes of meetings and resolutions, at the registered office or another notified place, available for inspection as the Act provides.
Source: Companies and Other Business Entities Act [Chapter 24:31]. Confirm specific requirements with a legal adviser.

The core registers

Register of members

Every shareholder, their address, the class and number of shares they hold, and the dates they became and ceased to be members.

Register of directors and secretaries

Each director and the company secretary, with their particulars and dates of appointment and resignation.

Directors' shareholdings

The shares each director holds in the company.

Beneficial owners

The natural persons who ultimately own or control the company — see our beneficial ownership guide.

Minutes and resolutions

Board and members' meetings and written resolutions.

The consistency problem

These registers describe the same facts from different angles. When they are separate spreadsheets, a single share transfer has to be updated in three places — and usually is not.

How YoBridge solves it

YoBridge records corporate events — appointments, resignations, allotments, transfers, resolutions — and generates every register from them. Change something once and the register of members, directors' shareholdings and beneficial ownership all update together. Because history is kept, you can produce any register as at any past date.

See company secretarial in YoBridge and the share register.

General guidance only, not legal advice.