AFRINIC MEMBERS · ACT NOW

Claim your place on AFRINIC’s member register.

Your company funds AFRINIC. Your company must count.

Put your membership on record. Assert the legal protections that let members demand answers, enforce the rules and challenge unfair treatment.

Prepare your membership request

WHY THIS MATTERS

Do not wait for a dispute to defend your standing.

AFRINIC’s resource members pay for the institution and depend on its decisions. NRS’s position is that their entitlement to company membership should be recognised in the statutory register and the corresponding official records. An internal membership category should not erase that entitlement.

AFRINIC is a company limited by guarantee without share capital. Section 269 of the Mauritius Companies Act applies relevant shareholder provisions to members, with exclusions and necessary modifications. NRS is asking every Resource Member to put its own claim on record.

The rules are being contested. Put your company’s position in writing now.

MEMBERSHIP WITH LEGAL WEIGHT

Assert the shareholder protections that apply to members.

These are practical ways to hold a company accountable. Each is subject to the Act’s requirements and your company’s entitlement.

Inspect the records

Seek access to specified meeting records, member communications and other company records through the statutory inspection process.

Sections 226–228 ↗

Enforce the rules

Ask the court to require action that the Companies Act or the company’s constitution requires.

Section 176 ↗

Challenge unfair treatment

Seek a court remedy for oppressive, unfairly discriminatory or unfairly prejudicial conduct.

Section 178 ↗

“Shareholder protections” here means the provisions that apply to members under section 269. AFRINIC has no share capital; this request does not seek shares or a director’s seat.

TAKE ACTION

Put your company’s claim on record.

Identify your company. Use its full legal name and your authority to represent it.
Review and send. Open the prepared draft or copy it into your company email.
Get a written response. Ask for a reference number, confirmation and any further filing requirements.

Review your request

To: comd@govmu.org; pmo@govmu.org; mofed-registry@govmu.org; mtci@govmu.org; ago@govmu.org; sgo@govmu.org; financialservices@govmu.org
Cc: smutty@govmu.org
Subject: AFRINIC — request for recognition and registration of company membership

Complete request — you can also select and copy this text

Dear Registrar of Companies,

I write as the authorised representative of [FULL LEGAL COMPANY NAME], an AFRINIC Resource Member, concerning AFRICAN NETWORK INFORMATION CENTRE (AfriNIC) LTD.

We assert our entitlement to recognition as a member of AFRINIC for the purposes of the Companies Act. Please take the necessary steps to ensure our company’s inclusion in the register of members and corresponding records maintained by your office, accurately identifying our status as a Resource Member. We are not seeking the director-category status of “Registered Member”.

We rely on section 269 of the Companies Act, which applies the relevant shareholder provisions to members of a company limited by guarantee without share capital, with the statutory exclusions and necessary modifications. We ask for our membership to be recorded so that our company can assert the applicable rights to inspect company records, seek compliance with the Act and constitution, and seek remedies against oppressive or unfairly prejudicial conduct.

Please acknowledge receipt, provide a reference number, and confirm in writing the steps taken to record our membership. If further evidence, a prescribed filing or a court order is required, please identify the precise requirement and its legal basis.

Yours faithfully,
[YOUR NAME]
[YOUR POSITION]
[FULL LEGAL COMPANY NAME]

If your email app shortens the draft, copy the complete request instead. Send it from your company account and keep the sent message and any reply.

This page prepares a request to the Registrar of Companies. Sending it does not itself enter your company in the register. The response should confirm the steps taken or specify what further evidence, filing or court order is required.

THE BASIS OF THE REQUEST

The register should reflect the members.

Section 269 treats references to shareholders as references to members and references to the share register as references to the register of members, subject to its terms. Section 91 sets out the register requirement. NRS’s campaign seeks recognition of each Resource Member’s own entitlement.

Read the source. Follow the campaign.

NRS campaign · 1 November 2026