Pieters N.O. v Absa Bank Ltd (979/2018) [2019] ZASCA 118 (23 September 2019)

Company dissolution – s 419 of Companies Act 61 of 1973 –
date of dissolution is date when Registrar recorded dissolution in the
Companies Register, not date of publication of notice of dissolution in
Government Gazette – agreed facts – no proof that Registrar had not
recorded dissolution of company – effect of Master’s certificates in terms
of ss 419(1) and 385 of Companies Act to discharge liquidator – Master
lacks power to re-instate liquidator after discharge – purported
reinstatement of liquidator invalid