“company” includes –
(a) any association, corporation or company (other than a close corporation) incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by or under any law in force or previously in force in the Republic or in any part thereof, or any body corporate formed or established or deemed to be formed or established by or under any such law; or
(b) any association, corporation or company incorporated under the law of any country other than the Republic or any body corporate formed or established under such law; or
(c) any co-operative; or
(d) any association (not being an association referred to in paragraph (a) or (f) formed in the Republic to serve a specified purpose, beneficial to the public or a section of the public; or
(e) any –
(i) ……….
(ii) portfolio comprised in any investment scheme carried on outside the Republic that is comparable to a portfolio of a collective investment scheme in participation bonds or a portfolio of a collective investment scheme in securities in pursuance of any arrangement in terms of which members of the public (as defined in section 1 of the Collective Investment Schemes Control Act) are invited or permitted to contribute to and hold participatory interests in that portfolio through shares, units or any other form of participatory interest; or
(iii) portfolio of a collective investment scheme in property that qualifies as a REIT as defined in the listing requirements of an exchange, as defined in section 1 of the Financial Markets Act and licensed under section 9 of that Act, where those listing requirements have been approved in consultation with the Director-General of the National Treasury and published by the appropriate authority, as contemplated in section 1 of the Financial Markets Act, in terms of section 11 of that Act or by the Financial Sector Conduct Authority; or
[Subparagraph (iii) added by section 2(1)(a) of Act 22 of 2012 and substituted by section 4(1)(f) of Act 31 of 2013, by section 1(1)(a) of Act 43 of 2014, by section 3(1)(b) of Act 25 of 2015, by section 1(1)(a) of Act 23 of 2018 and by section 4(1)(a) of Act 20 of 2021]
(f) a close corporation,
but does not include a foreign partnership;