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What is a Share Certificate?
A share certificate is legal proof of ownership of a company. Its a signed document, signed by the directors of the company, and shows information such as the Name and Surname of the individual, the ID number of the person, residential address, the quantity of shares owned and the actual share numbers owned.

It is supposed to match the share register, a particular series of documents, that specify who has the share certificates, which ones have been cancelled and which are active.

Share certificates are not issued by CIPC the registrar of companies, nor does CIPC keep track of the ownership of your company at the present time. They keep track of directors, namely people responsible for the company legally and appointed by the shareholders. Subsequently all share certificates, share registers are supposed to be maintained by the directors of the company in a company register.