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MISSION
The South African National Zakáh Fund (SANZAF) is a religious, socio-welfare and educational organisation that strives to facilitate the empowerment of needy families through the efficient collection and effective distribution of Zakáh (compulsory annual poor tax) and other Sadaqát (voluntary charity) – in a proactive and cost effective way through projects – with dignity, sincerity and a shared responsibility.
VISION
To constantly strive to be the premier Zakáh Collecting & Distributing agency in South Africa To deliver a service par excellence to our constituency To become a model Muslim organisation
CORE ACTIVITY
SANZAF's core activity is the administration for the collection and distribution of Zakah, Fitrah, Fidiyah and all other forms of Sadaqaat.
APPROACH SANZAF's Welfare Projects are designed to assist needy families and individuals with their short term poverty alleviation requirements as well as their long term empowerment viz. educational, training and developmental needs in order to assist them in becoming financially self-sufficient. HISTORY
At an MYM conference in Rustenburg on 16 December 1973, a paper outlining the need for a nationally co-ordinated Zakáh agency was presented. On 12 April 1974, a feasibility study and blueprint for a Zakáh Fund was presented at a convention held in Braemar. A resolution was passed calling for the formation of the South African National Zakáh Fund. Whilst this was taking place in the former Transvaal and Natal, anothert initiative was under way in the Cape. Zakáh Fund Cape was launched in 1975. In 1977, a meeting between Zakah Fund Cape and Transvaal & Natal SANZAF representatives was held. At this ‘formalisation’ meeting, agreement to merge and form a national network was reached. By 1979 three regional offices were established in the former Cape Province, Natal and Transvaal. SANZAF subsequently expanded to Kimberley, Port Elizabeth and Bloemfontein and currently comprises 32 offices & satellite branches throughout the country making it the single largest independent Zakah institution in Southern Africa.
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