The starting point is the very start of the business enterprise in whatever form it takes. So, the entrepreneur can select from the following enterprise types in South Africa: Company, partnership, sole proprietorship, business trust or close corporation.
For their proper legal bureaucracies for each type of legal ownership requires and uses various documents, notices, and agreements. This is especially so with companies.

The following are the most common agreements, notices or contracts:

Association agreement with management provisions,
Shareholders’ agreement,
Simple voting pool agreement,
Voting pool agreement with provision for a pool agent,
Share option scheme,
Phantom share purchase scheme,
Sale of Shares agreement,
Co-operatives, Memorandum of Understanding,
Joint venture agreement (unincorporated) to tender for a contract to supply goods, Joint venture agreement (unincorporated) to implement a design and constructions contract following a tender award (parties share equally in risk),
Joint venture agreement (unincorporated) to implement construction contract following a tender award, Joint venture agreement (incorporated) to form a company which will make use of intellectual property owned by one of the parties.
Partnerships:
Partnership agreement for an ordinary partnership,
Partnership agreement for a special partnership,
Partnership agreement for a professional firm (architectural firm).
Specific company related agreements regarding the board of directors include:

Legal Compliance Action Plan,
Clauses for the Election of the Board of Directors in a Memorandum of Incorporation, Clauses for the Election and Rotation of the Board of Directors in a Memorandum of Incorporation,
Clauses for the Controlled Election of the Board of Directors in a Memorandum of Incorporation,
Board and Committee Charter,
Board resolution for delegation of authority,
Board resolution establishing a board committee,
Board member’s written disclosure of personal financial interest,
Board member’s disclosure of a personal financial interest at a meeting,
Shareholders resolution appointing audit committee,
Shareholders’ resolution approving directors’ fees,
Shareholders’ resolution advising approval of remuneration report,
Shareholders’ resolution approving corporate governance rules,
Shareholders’ resolution ratifying conduct of the board members,
Shareholders’ resolution ratifying personal financial interests of board members,
Mining and Minerals
Mining Services Agreement,
Application for Ministerial consent to cede, or transfer, or let, or sublet, or assign, or alienate or dispose of a prospecting right,
Application for Ministerial consent to cede, or transfer, or assign, or alienate or dispose of a controlling interest in a company or close corporation,
Application for permission to remove and dispose of bulk samples,
Annual Report by the holder of a mining right or a mining permit,
Agreement for payment of compensation by the holder of a mineral right,
Special power of attorney in terms of Regulation 4 of the Regulations to the Mining Titles Registration Act 16 of 1967