Company registration body wins top awards
South Africa’s Companies and Intellectual Property Commission wins big at the 18th Public Sector Innovation Awards.
The trade, industry and competition minister, Ebrahim Patel, on Sunday congratulated South Africa’s Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) for scooping three awards at the 18th Centre for Public Service Innovation (CPSI) Public Sector Innovation Awards.
The awards ceremony was held two days earlier at the Velmore Hotel, Centurion.
According to the department of trade, industry and competition, the CIPC’s BizPortal online registration system won the 2020 Innovator of the Year award for being the overall innovation project of the year.
It was also awarded the Innovation Harnessing Technology (ICT and other Frontiers Technologies) award for being the most innovative project in the category of technology.
CIPC solutions architect Tando Luyaba won the Trailblazer award for coming up with and developing the BizPortal online registration system.
Patel commended the CIPC management and personnel for their achievements and their award winning BizPortal online registration system.
“The CIPC has embraced new technologies to speed up its services and widen access,” Patel said in a statement.
“This improves the ease of doing business in South Africa and helps with the economic recovery programmes of government,” he said.
“The Bizportal makes it easier for new entrants and young people to start businesses.”
He revealed that the CIPC had registered more than 141 000 companies between November 2019 and February 2021 using the Bizportal, with the process normally taking less than a day.
This means on average, close to 12 000 new companies had been registered each month, including during the Covid lockdown period, he said.
According to the department of trade, industry and competition, the Bizportal enables seven services in a single system.
These services consist of the company registration, registration for purposes of the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), compliance with the registration for the compensation fund, SARS registration, BEE registration, opening of a bank account and registration of a .za domain name.
CIPC commissioner Adv. Rory Voller welcomed the awards and described them as a symbol of recognition for the good work they were doing for members of the public.
Voller believes that the awards would motivate his staff members to keep on excelling in providing the best services to the public members.
“Ours, as the government entity, is to cut the red tape and make it easy for members of the public to do business.”
He said the CIPC Bizportal allowed business people to access a rapid service, free from inefficiencies and service delivery delays, as a company normally got registered within minutes.
He said the CIPC would continue looking at ways of improving their services by leveraging on technology.
A lot of people on social media congratulated the CIPC and appreciated the way the entity has helped them in the past.
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