CIPRO (Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office) has just thrown the Baby out with the Bathwater.
As of today the non-profit referrer site www.cipro.org.za has closed down due to CIPRO's insistence in spite of it referring clients to Cipro for the past 6 years free of charge and advising thousands of clients about business registration also without recognition or thanks from the powers that be.
Now if you go to www.cipro.org.za you will find a blank page instead of onward referral to the government site and a free advice email system which has helped thousands of would-be entrepreneurs.
Not only has the government's inability to run the country led to hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs, but now they have gone one further and blocked thousands of members of the public from quick business advice which the volunteers at www.cipro.org.za has given for 6 years!
Pretexts like stating that the cipro.org.za consultants answered the phone "Cipro Hello" do not gel as it has been confirmed this was never done by these voluntary individuals. Why would they want to be Cipro and shoulder the blame for a badly run organisation?
AGENT versus CUSTOMER
Here is an extract form Cipro's website:
What is a customer? A customer is any person or enterprise that plays an intermediary role between the customer and CIPRO. Customers are required to be registered with CIPRO. Various types of CIPRO customers exist in South Africa, such as Attorneys, Law Firms, Banks, Auditors, Other Enterprises and Private Individuals.
How can a customer be an intermediary between a customer and Cipro? The thing is, this was the old definition of an Agent badly rehashed by Cipro.
In the old days (a few years ago) only registered Agents could use Cipro's online services. Information integrity was high.
Then some bright spark at Cipro decided to let every possible person in SA climb on their server and since then there has been mass corruption, fraud and delayed server activity, with incorrect data ubiquitously moving through the system.
Under the recent crackdown rules accounting firms who register thousands of CC's annually with Cipro and thereby make a hugh contribution to the economy may not use the name Cipro anywhere on their websites, not even to say they are Cipro agents.
So if you are a Nedbank client you cannot say you are a Nedbank client? And for Cipro you may not say you are a Cipro agent or customer?
As of today the non-profit referrer site www.cipro.org.za has closed down due to CIPRO's insistence in spite of it referring clients to Cipro for the past 6 years free of charge and advising thousands of clients about business registration also without recognition or thanks from the powers that be.
Now if you go to www.cipro.org.za you will find a blank page instead of onward referral to the government site and a free advice email system which has helped thousands of would-be entrepreneurs.
Not only has the government's inability to run the country led to hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs, but now they have gone one further and blocked thousands of members of the public from quick business advice which the volunteers at www.cipro.org.za has given for 6 years!
Pretexts like stating that the cipro.org.za consultants answered the phone "Cipro Hello" do not gel as it has been confirmed this was never done by these voluntary individuals. Why would they want to be Cipro and shoulder the blame for a badly run organisation?
AGENT versus CUSTOMER
Here is an extract form Cipro's website:
What is a customer? A customer is any person or enterprise that plays an intermediary role between the customer and CIPRO. Customers are required to be registered with CIPRO. Various types of CIPRO customers exist in South Africa, such as Attorneys, Law Firms, Banks, Auditors, Other Enterprises and Private Individuals.
How can a customer be an intermediary between a customer and Cipro? The thing is, this was the old definition of an Agent badly rehashed by Cipro.
In the old days (a few years ago) only registered Agents could use Cipro's online services. Information integrity was high.
Then some bright spark at Cipro decided to let every possible person in SA climb on their server and since then there has been mass corruption, fraud and delayed server activity, with incorrect data ubiquitously moving through the system.
Under the recent crackdown rules accounting firms who register thousands of CC's annually with Cipro and thereby make a hugh contribution to the economy may not use the name Cipro anywhere on their websites, not even to say they are Cipro agents.
So if you are a Nedbank client you cannot say you are a Nedbank client? And for Cipro you may not say you are a Cipro agent or customer?
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