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You can register and run a Zimbabwean company from Botswana without travelling. Ownership of a Zimbabwean company carries no residency or citizenship requirement, so a Botswana resident or a Botswana company can own one outright, subject to the reserved-sector rules that apply to any owner who is not a Zimbabwean citizen.
Last verified 10 September 2026. Each item takes five working days from the day we have your complete documents, confirmed in writing by our filing partner. Where one item depends on another they run in sequence, so a ZIMRA registration waits for the certificate of incorporation and a tax clearance waits for the ZIMRA registration.
You pay in full when you instruct the job, in one payment rather than in stages. Our fee and the government fee are separate numbers on the quote, and government fees are passed through at cost. Your quotation arrives by email. Reply to it and we confirm your timeline in writing before you pay. If we cannot confirm a timeline in writing, anything you have paid comes back in full.
Anyone registering a Zimbabwean company from Botswana. A Zimbabwean living in Gaborone or Francistown. An investor of any nationality based in Botswana. A Botswana company that needs a Zimbabwean entity to contract, invoice, employ or bid.
This is the route agents write about least and quote most vaguely. The answer that matters is the same one everywhere: who will own the company decides which statutory appointments it has to hold, and the questionnaire prices that rather than routing you to a call.
We need an identity document or passport and a proof of address for every person going on the register, and registration documents for any company that will hold shares. What has to be certified, and by whom, depends on what is being registered and who is on the register, so we send you a document list with your estimate rather than a generic one up front. We do not publish a certification or embassy requirement we have not confirmed, because getting that wrong costs you a week and a courier fee.
Where an original has to travel, the leg is short and we plan it into the schedule.
Your quote carries a card pay link and is priced in United States dollars. Your bank converts at its own rate. Cards issued outside Zimbabwe are sometimes declined by the acquirer, and if that happens we send bank transfer details instead. You pay in full when you instruct the job, in one payment rather than in stages. Our fee and the government fee are separate numbers on the quote, and government fees are passed through at cost.
On moving money out of Botswana: exchange controls were abolished on 9 February 1999. That is a published position rather than advice, and banks across the region still apply their own documentation processes in practice, so allow for your bank asking what the payment is for.
Botswana and Zimbabwe are both UTC+2 and neither changes its clocks, so our hours are your hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00.
The rule is the same wherever you are reading this. A Private Business Corporation is held by members under section 252(1) of the Companies and Other Business Entities Act [Chapter 24:31] and no section of the Act puts a residency duty on a member, which suits a single owner outside Zimbabwe. A Private Limited Company needs one director ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe under section 195(2) and a company secretary ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe under section 198(1), and it is the only route for a company registered outside Zimbabwe, because section 253(1) bars a body corporate from being a PBC member.
If you are not a Zimbabwean citizen, or the owner is a company registered outside Zimbabwe, you still get a price from the questionnaire rather than a sales call. A Private Limited Company must hold a company secretary ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe, which you appoint yourself because we do not provide one yet, and where you have no Zimbabwe address we source a registered office provider for you as a one-off line. ZIDA registration appears as a note that carries no figure and is not added to your total. If the company will mainly work in one of the sectors Statutory Instrument 215 of 2025 reserves, the questionnaire asks, and that route starts with the foreign investor consultation instead of a price.
Yes, as the shareholder of a Zimbabwean Private Limited Company. Section 253(1) of the Companies and Other Business Entities Act bars a body corporate from being a member of a Private Business Corporation, so the Private Limited Company is the route for a corporate owner.
There is none. Botswana and Zimbabwe are both UTC+2 all year and neither changes its clocks.
Botswana abolished exchange controls on 9 February 1999. Banks in the region still run their own documentation processes in practice, so expect to be asked what the payment is for. We invoice in US dollars with a reference that makes that easy to answer.
No. Ownership carries no citizenship requirement. Foreign ownership adds the company secretary a Private Limited Company must hold and appoints for itself, a registered office in Zimbabwe which we source for you where you have none, ZIDA registration where foreign shareholding reaches 51%, and the reserved-sector rules in Statutory Instrument 215 of 2025, all of which your estimate takes into account.
Each item takes five working days from the day we have your complete documents, confirmed in writing by our filing partner. Where one item depends on another they run in sequence, so a ZIMRA registration waits for the certificate of incorporation and a tax clearance waits for the ZIMRA registration. The count starts on the day we hold your complete documents, wherever in the world you signed them, so the clock is not affected by which country you are in. Your quotation arrives by email. Reply to it and we confirm your timeline in writing before you pay. If we cannot confirm a timeline in writing, anything you have paid comes back in full.
ZimCompany registers and runs Zimbabwean companies for people and businesses anywhere in the world: owners living outside Zimbabwe, foreign investors, and companies registered elsewhere that need a Zimbabwean entity. Email support@lioncapventures.com or message +263 77 272 4514 on WhatsApp. We work 9:00 to 17:00 CAT, UTC+2 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
ZimCompany is a Lioncap Ventures service. Lioncap Ventures (Pvt) Ltd, registration 16326A02102024, Harare, Zimbabwe. Start with the questionnaire at https://zimcompany.com/start.
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