ZimCompany › From South Africa
You can register and run a Zimbabwean company from South Africa without travelling, whether you are a Zimbabwean living there, a South African investor, or a South African company opening a Zimbabwean subsidiary. South Africa and Zimbabwe share the same clock, so a message reaches Harare inside your own working day.
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 South Africa. In practice that is three readers at once. A Zimbabwean living in South Africa who wants a company in Zimbabwe. A South African investor buying into the Zimbabwean market. And a South African company opening a Zimbabwean entity so it can contract, invoice, employ or bid locally rather than as a foreign supplier.
Registering from South Africa is the easiest of the countries we serve. You are on the same clock, the border is a day trip for documents that genuinely need to travel, and the invoice can often be settled locally in Zimbabwe by someone you know.
ZimStat counted 773,246 Zimbabwean nationals in South Africa, about 85% of all Zimbabwean nationals it recorded abroad. Larger figures circulate; the ones with a name attached to them are these. Alongside that, South African businesses are the nearest foreign owners of Zimbabwean subsidiaries, which is why this page has to serve both readers rather than one.
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 We do not publish a certification or embassy requirement we have not confirmed, because getting that wrong costs you a week and a courier fee.
If a document does have to travel physically, South Africa is the one country where that is rarely a problem: courier is cheap and someone in Zimbabwe can hand something in.
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.
Someone in Zimbabwe can also settle the invoice locally on your behalf, which is common on this route.
South Africa 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.
Many readers on this route do know someone ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe who can take the director seat, which makes the Private Limited Company cheaper here than it is from further away.
Yes, from anywhere in South Africa. Ownership has no residency or citizenship requirement, and only a Private Limited Company needs a director ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe.
Yes, as the shareholder of a Zimbabwean Private Limited Company. A Private Limited Company must hold a company secretary ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe under section 198. It is a statutory appointment, we do not provide one yet, and you appoint your own, so no price for it appears anywhere on this site.
Yes. The invoice can be settled locally by someone there while the account and the documents stay in your name.
No. Quotes are priced and charged in US dollars, and your bank converts. If a card is declined by the acquirer, we send bank transfer details.
No. Everything is handled remotely, and documents move digitally unless a filing genuinely needs an original.
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.
Register a company in Zimbabwe: The two vehicles, the steps from name search to ZIMRA, the documents the registry needs, and what each step costs, with the government fee as its own number.