Insolvent Estates (Liquidations)

 

Active Insolvency Practitioners in South Africa

The Chief Master hereby thank all Insolvency Practitioners and aspirant Insolvency Practitioners who submitted their completed information forms.

Any follow-up should only be via email (LiqRenewal@justice.gov.za) because no telephone or fax communication will be accepted. If you have sent your information via email and have not received an auto-generated response, indicating that the Master has received your information, please send an email to the Master at LiqRenewal@justice.gov.za.

Once the consideration of additional/outstanding information has been considered, stakeholder and the public would be advised of all green practitioners details for their inputs and objections, if any, to underscore the openness and transparency of this process of cleaning the List.

RENEWAL PROCESS FOR 2022-2023

The Renewal Process 2022 – 2023 has not yet been finalized and it is anticipated that the process will be completed by the end of the year 2023.

The Lists as currently published are Provisional Lists in order to exclude Liquidators that have passed on and also Liquidators that have requested to be removed from the list.

These Updated Lists are not the Final Lists and will be replaced with updated Lists once the Renewal Process and New Intakes for 2023 has been concluded.

Dated: 10/11/2023

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE: NEW INTAKES FOR THE NATIONAL INSOLVENCY LIST FOR THE YEAR 2023

Application for New Intakes for the period 04 September 2023 to 06 October 2023 has now CLOSED.

New Intakes for the year 2024 will be communicated in due course.

Dated: 10/11/2023

Once more your co-operation in this transformation of Insolvency Practice/Industry is greatly appreciated.

The contact details of persons reflected on the PDI lists, appear in full on the National List of Liquidators. Any Practitioner who finds any error with his details is invited to send email to LiqRenewal@justice.gov.za.

Related file: Chief Maters Directive 2016-01 - Appointments in terms of the PDI/BEE list of Insolvency Practitioners.

New Applications for admission to the Active Insolvency Practitioners List

  1. Qualifications:
    Any person who has the following qualifications or is an admitted attorney, may apply to be considered for inclusion in the National list of liquidators:
    1. LLB
    2. B Proc
    3. B Com

  2. Intakes for new applicants will take place twice annually (May and October). The closing dates for submission of new applications before each intake will be March and August.

  3. Assessments of new applicants consists of a written test, as well as a short interview. Candidates should have knowledge of the following in preparation of such assessment:
    • Insolvency Act 24 of 1936;
    • Companies Act 61 0f 1973;
    • Companies Act 71 of 2008;
    • Close Corporations Act 69 of 1984;
    • Relevant Case Law;
    • Latest developments in the insolvency and liquidation industry.

  4. For purposes of the assessment process, should you have met the requirements to be shortlisted, you need to bring:
    • ID document or valid drivers’ licence;
    • Own stationary and calculator
    Note: Candidates will not be allowed access to their cellular phones during the assessment period.

  5. Affidavit for new applicants
    The below-linked information affidavit must be completed and must be lodged, together with the annexures thereto, to the  following e-mail address before the closing dates of each intake as mentioned above.

    Affidavit for New Applications: Affidavit providing required information for persons applying to be placed on the National List of Liquidators [376kb] Updated: 2016/11/10

    These affidavits with annexures may only be submitted electronically to the following e-mail address: NewLiq@justice.gov.za