King V Governance Toolkit 2026 — The 13 Principles, Numbered to the Official Code (Guide, Flash Cards & 52-Question Self-Assessment)

Your board reports against King IV. Your financial year started under King V. That gap is now your problem — or your advantage.

King V landed on 31 October 2025 and applies to financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2026. It restructures South African governance: 17 principles become 13, a standalone Disclosure Framework with a signed template arrives, technology, data, and AI become explicit governing-body responsibilities, and director independence moves to a holistic assessment. The King V Governance Toolkit gets you across the transition in one product.

What's inside — one interactive file, three tools:

📘 Ten chapters plus reference tables:

• The King IV → King V transition: what changed, what moved to CRISA, and the new four-document structure (Code, Foundational Concepts, Glossary, Disclosure Framework)
• The four governance outcomes — ethical culture, performance and value creation, conformance, legitimacy — and double materiality
• The 13 principles, numbered to the official IoDSA Code — composition at Principle 5, risk at 8, compliance at 9, data/information/technology at 10, remuneration at 11, assurance at 12, stakeholders at 13. Much early commentary numbers these wrong; this toolkit doesn't.
• The governing body as focal point, and the Code's three functional categories of recommended practices
• Committees and the new independence regime: the holistic assessment, the 9-year factor, and the extended cooling-off (three years plus a further two)
• Technology, data, and AI governance (Principle 10) — the most significant expansion, from data-as-strategic-asset to algorithmic accountability
• The Disclosure Framework and integrated reporting, aligned to IFRS S1 and S2
• Companies Act alignment — including how the new statutory say-on-pay votes overlay the Code's remuneration recommendations
• A King IV vs King V at-a-glance table and a key numbers table for revision

🃏 40 Flash Cards and 📝 a 52-question scenario self-assessment — timed or practice mode with instant explanations, per-topic results, unlimited retakes.

Who it's for: Company secretaries and governance professionals steering the transition, directors and prescribed officers, CGISA candidates and governance students, JSE-listed and SOE governance teams, and consultants who advise them.

Why this toolkit:

• ✅ First-mover: a complete King V product while the market still sells King IV
• ✅ Numbered to the official Code — verified against the IoDSA's published King V documents, not secondary commentary
• ✅ AI governance covered properly — the topic your board will ask about first

Sovereignty by Char (Pty) Ltd is an independent publisher, not affiliated with the IoDSA, the King Committee, or the JSE.

The official King V documents remain the authoritative source; this toolkit is education, not governance advice.