Companies Act Toolkit 2026 — Director Duties, Business Rescue & the 2024–2026 Amendments (Guide, Flash Cards & 50-Question Self-Assessment)

If your Companies Act knowledge predates 26 July 2024, it's out of date — and if you sit on a board, that's now a personal problem.

The Companies Amendment Acts of 2024 changed the game: remuneration policies now face a binding shareholder vote, a failed implementation report carries real consequences for the remuneration committee, and beneficial ownership filing is entrenched. The Companies Act Toolkit teaches the statute as it stands — old fundamentals and new amendments together.

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

📘 Eight study chapters:

• Company types, incorporation, the MOI's supremacy over shareholders' agreements — and the solvency and liquidity test (s4) that gates distributions, buy-backs, and financial assistance
• Director duties under s76: the fiduciary duty, the objective-plus-subjective care standard, and the business judgment rule safe harbour
• Personal liability (s77), delinquency (s162 — minimum 7 years), and automatic disqualification (s69)
• Business rescue end to end: financial distress, the moratorium, the BRP's 25 business days, post-commencement finance, and the dual 75% + 50%-independent creditor vote
• Governance structures: boards, audit committees, the social and ethics committee's public-interest-score trigger
• The 2024–2026 amendments in full — signed 26 July 2024, first provisions live 27 December 2024: the binding ordinary-resolution remuneration regime, the two-year remuneration-committee ineligibility rule, the 5% beneficial-interest disclosure threshold, codified electronic meetings, easier derivative actions
• Takeovers: fundamental transactions, appraisal rights, the 35% mandatory offer, and the real TRP regulated-company test

🃏 40 Flash Cards and 📝 a 50-question scenario self-assessment — timed (75 min, 70% benchmark) or practice mode with instant explanations, per-topic results, unlimited retakes.

Who it's for: Directors and prescribed officers, company secretaries, CGISA candidates, entrepreneurs incorporating and scaling companies, attorneys and accountants who touch company law, and anyone stepping onto a board for the first time.

Why this toolkit:

• ✅ Post-amendment: teaches the binding say-on-pay regime most guides haven't caught up with
• ✅ Precise numbers: 7 years, 75%, 35%, 5%, 25 business days — verified against the Act and leading firm analyses
• ✅ Honestly disclaimed and independently authored

Sovereignty by Char (Pty) Ltd is an independent publisher, not affiliated with the CIPC, the Companies Tribunal, or the Takeover Regulation Panel. Education, not legal advice.