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CGF ARTICLES, OPINIONS & EDITORIALS

THE COMPANY SECRETARY CAN MAKE OR BREAK THE BOARD (2024-05-23)

By Terrance M. Booysen (CGF Research Institute: CEO)

While the position of Company Secretary has always been important within an organisation, especially from an administrative perspective, the Company Secretary’s role and scope of responsibility has grown over the years from an ‘efficient administrator’ to a ‘governance leader’. A modern-day Company Secretary’s role essentially encompasses ensuring the smooth running of the board’s functions, as well as ensuring -- from a good governance perspective -- that directors are adequately informed and protected in the heightened regulatory environment in which modern organisations operate.

Advertorial: Time to insure your position as the net broadens for prescribed officers (2015-02-27)

Advertorial issued by CGF Research Institute

What is now crystal clear for directors and prescribed officers -- particularly since the launch of the Companies Act 2008 (‘the Act’) -- is the fact that the personal liability as attached to directors and prescribed officers of any type of business operation, is unparalleled to years gone by.