CIPC? Save yourself the frustration.

For years now I have struggled with CIPC. They can't even manage ones password properly. Now once again the old password does not work on the old or the new portal. Phone them, good luck with that! After 6 attempts to reset the password on both portals I am giving up. It is sad to lose the company registration but perhaps it is better to do the offs**** thing. Each year it is the same thing and an endless jumping through hoops just to be able to log onto any of these portals and don't get me started on SARS! I'm not going to discuss anything else as there really are no positives when you can't even get past the login screen. If you are considering registering a company I would suggest getting to know how offs**** company registration and banking works. I would suggest you look at the Seychelles to start. Yes it costs a little more sometimes but it is worth not dealing with all the frustration and loop hopping you will have to do here in South Africa. Consider that I'm frustrated at the basic things here. This is not even the technical stuff! Can't wait so see how deregistration is going to go. I'm probably going to need a whole lot of calming pills. Scratch that, based on how things have gone I'm probably going to need tranquillizers! They are probably going to tell me to deregister I must login to the system. Won’t that be fun? Anyone knows, if you don't renew your company registration, how long before the company automatically deregisters?