CONSTITUTION

1. NAME

The name of the organization shall be _______________ and shall hereinafter referred to as
the “ORGANISATION”.

2. HEADQUARTERS

The headquarters of the ORGANISATION shall be situated in _________________ .

3. AIMS AND OBJECTS

a) To found, build, maintain and own Mosques, social centers, schools, Madressas, halls,
libraries, orphanages and such other charitable Institutions for the use and upliftment of
Muslims and other disadvantage communities and religious groupings.

b) To promote the cause of Muslims and other disadvantage communities and religious
groupings both males and females generally; to improve their conditions and status socially,
religiously, educationally, spiritually and culturally; to guard against any encroachment upon
their existing rights and privileges; to work for and foster peace, goodwill, brotherhood and
co-operation between themselves and other communities; to encourage advancement and
upliftment of Muslims and other disadvantage communities and religious groupings n all
spheres of life.

c) To acquire any rights and privileges which the ORGANISATION may regard as necessary or
convenient for its purpose and generally to perform all such acts as are incidental to the
aforesaid aims and objects and to do such other work as may appear to be in the best
interest of the ORGANISATION.

4. MANAGEMENT

a) The ORGANISATION shall be governed by at least a Board of seven (7) Trustees.

b) The Board of Trustees from amongst their members shall elect a Chairman, Vice Chairman,
a Secretary, an Assistant Secretary and a Treasurer every year.

c) The office of a Trustee shall be vacated by resignation or if certified to be of unsound mind

or in the event of his failing to attend three (3) consecutive meetings of the Trustees
without tendering an apology.

d) Any vacancy of the Board of Trustees shall be filled by the remaining Trustees co-opting a
suitable person.

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5. OFFICIALS AND TRUSTEES

a) The Board of Trustees shall meet whenever considered necessary and shall meet at least
once a year. At all meetings of the Board of Trustees a quorum shall consist of half plus
one of the members.

b) The Chairman shall have both a deliberate and casting vote at such meetings.

c) In the absence of a Chairman the Vice Chairman shall preside at all meetings of the Board
of Trustees and perform such functions normally performed by the Chairman.

d) Notice of all meetings of the Board of Trustees shall be served by post or personally by the
Secretaries.

e) Three (3) days’ notice shall be deemed sufficient for such meetings, except that for the
annual general meeting, fifteen (15) days’ notice shall be given.

6. POWERS

a) To make and from time to time alter or revoke rules, regulations and bye-laws providing for
the decorous and proper conduct of meetings and other matters.

b) To appoint a Management Committee from amongst the residents of __________ and

adjoining suburbs and to carry out any resolutions of the Board of Trustees.

c) To take such steps by personal or written appeals, public meetings or otherwise as may
from time to time deemed expedient for the purpose of procuring contributions, charities,
subscriptions or otherwise and collect and canvass for and to accept donations, bequests,
endowments and other benefits for the ORGANISATION from any person, firm or
corporation or from any source whatever and accept trusts with or without conditions.

d) To subscribe to any Muslim charity, local or otherwise and to grant donations for any public
purposes.

e) To purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire, or otherwise acquire any movable or

immovable property and to construct, maintain, alter any houses, buildings or works
necessary or convenient for the purpose of the ORGANISATION, in accordance with the
objects of the ORGANISATION.

f) To invest any monies of the ORGANISATION. Funds available for investment shall only be
invested with registered financial institutions as defined in Section 1 of the Financial
Institutions (Investment of Funds) Act, 1984, and in securities listed on a licensed Stock
Exchange as defined in the Stock exchange Control Act, 1985 (Act No. 1 of 1985). Where
shares (other than shares as mentioned above) have been donated or bequeathed to the

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 ORGANISATION, the shares shall be held without jeopardizing the exempt status of the
ORGANISATION.

g) To raise or borrow monies for the use of the ORGANISATION on the security of the
ORGANISATION’S property or any part or parts thereof and for that purpose mortgage,
bond, pledge or hypothecate the whole or any part or parts of the ORGANISATION’S
property, movable or immovable.

h) To draw, make, endorse, accept, extend, discount, execute and issue cheques, promissory
notes, bills of exchange and other transferable instruments.

i) To open a banking account to be operated by the Chairman and any two (2) of the Trustees
as agreed upon by the majority of Trustees. In the absence of any one of the appointed
Trustees, the Trustees shall appoint any other Trustees to operate on the banking account.

j) To engage and dismiss clerks, tutors and servants and fix their remuneration, duties and
conditions of employment.

k) To consider, originate and promote reforms and improvements in the social and economic
structure of the ORGANISATION in consonant with the fundamental principles of Islam.

l) To undertake and promote social and economic welfare work of every description for the
ORGANISATION and especially for the poor and needy.

m) To establish, support and maintain orphanages, clinics, maternity homes, nursing centers,
refugee camps for the poor and needy, athletic clubs, holiday camps, and other
philanthropic and charitable institutions and to conduct and carry on the same.

n) To undertake the proper organization of teaching in Muslim schools, especially of religious

instructions on modern and scientific basis and to attain this and to build, maintain,
support, conduct and carry on religious cum secular schools and Madressas, reform or
prepare new curriculums and syllabuses, appoint and remove teachers and inspectors and
generally do such things as they are necessary or incidental to the attainment of this
particular object.

o) To provide at any school, college or institution free or partly free tuition with or without
free or partly free board and lodging to the needy Muslim student and to provide for
bursaries, loans or grants.

p) To institute or defend legal proceedings on behalf of the ORGANISATION and for that
purpose choose domicilium citandi executandi.

q) The Trustee shall be ex-officio members in a non-voting capacity of the Management

Committee.

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 r) The Trustees shall have the right to overrule any resolutions, decisions or actions of the
Management Committee if they deem it necessary in the interest of the ORGANISATION.

s) The ORGANISATION shall not have the power to carry on any business, including, inter alia,
ordinary trading operations in the commercial sense, speculative transactions, divided
stripping activities as well as the letting of property on a systematic or regular basis. The
ORGANISATION may however continue letting the property presently owned, but may not
utilize its funds to acquire further immovable property for purposes of deriving rental
income therefrom.

t) The activities of the ORGANISATION shall be confined to the Republic of South Africa
(including territories which formerly formed part of the Republic) and the funds of the
ORGANISATION shall be applied within its Area.

7. THE SECRETARY

a) The Secretaries shall keep proper records of minutes of all proceedings of the
ORGANISATION in a book called the minute book and shall at every meeting have these
minutes read and confirmed.

b) The Secretaries shall conduct all necessary correspondence with the Approval of the
Trustees, prepare all necessary documents pertaining to the ORGAISATION, send or post all
necessary documents, notices, etc., and perform all other services incidental to their office.

c) The Secretaries shall during their term of office be custodians of all books, documents,
papers, vouchers and other securities belonging to or filed with the ORGANISATION and at
the termination of their office term, hand them to their successor or successors.

8. THE TREASURER

The Treasurer shall keep proper books of accounts reflecting the financial transactions of the
ORGAISATION. He shall at every meeting furnish a statement of account of the financial affairs
of the ORGANISATION. He shall also present at every annual general meeting a full statement
showing the income and expenditure of the ORGANISATION. The Treasurer may retain a sum
not exceeding R 1000.00 for petty cash expenses, all accounts exceeding R 1000.00 shall be
paid by cheque and passed at a duly constituted meeting.

9. ASSETS AND PROPERTIES

All movable and immovable properties of the ORGANISATION shall be registered in the name of
the ORGANISATION.

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10. MISCELLANEOUS

Anything not provided for herein shall be dealt with by the Trustees.

11. AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION

Any amendments, alterations, addition or deletions can only be made at a special general
meeting called for the purpose and must be passed by at least four (4) Trustees present. A copy
of all amendments shall be submitted to the Commissioner for Inland Revenue and the
Director of Fund Raising.

12. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

a) The Management Committee shall consist of seven (7) persons elected by the Board of
Trustees at the annual general meeting, with powers to co-opt up to ten (10) additional
members as and when necessary with the same privileges and powers. Decisions of the
Management Committee must be submitted to the board of Trustees for approval.

b) The Management Committee shall elect its own Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer
respectively.

c) The office of a committee member shall be vacated by resignation, or if he is certified to be

of unsound mind or in the event of his departure from ___________ and district for a
period of six (6) months or in the event of his failing to attend three (3) consecutive
meetings of the Committee without tendering an apology.

d) Any vacancy shall be filled by the Committee and the member so appointed shall hold
office for the remainder of the period for which his predecessor was appointed.

e) The Management Committee shall meet within seven (7) days of its Election and shall at
least meet once every three (3) months. Five (5) members shall form a quorum.

f) Notice of all meetings of the Management Committee shall be served by post or personally
by the Secretary. Three (3) days’ notice shall be deemed sufficient for such meetings.

g) The Management Committee may for the purpose of convenience have its own banking
account operated by two of its three officials.

h) The Management Committee shall present a report of its activities at every annual general
meeting of the Board of Trustees.

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13. DISSOLUTION

The ORGANISATION may be dissolved if at least two-thirds of the members present and voting
at a general meeting of the members convened for the purpose of considering such matter are
in favour of dissolution. Not less than twenty one (21) days’ notice shall be given of such
meeting and the notice convening the meeting shall clearly state that the question of
dissolution of the ORGANISATION and disposal of its assets will e considered. If there is no
quorum at such a general meeting, the meeting shall stand adjourned for not less than one
week and the members attending such meeting shall constitute a quorum.

If upon dissolution of the ORGANISATION there remain any assets whatsoever after the
satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities, such assets shall not be paid to or distributed among
its members, but shall be given to such organization(s) preferably having similar objects and
which is/are authorized in terms of the Fund-raising Act, 1978 and which are themselves
exempted from income tax in terms of Section 10(1)(f) of the Income Tax Act, to collect
contributions as may be decided either by the members at the general meeting at which it was
decided to dissolve the ORGANISATION, or in default of such decision as may be decided by the
Director of Fund-raising.

14. No member of the Board of Trustees shall have a direct or indirect interest in or benefit from
any contract which the Board of Trustees may conclude with any company.

15. Should the services of a fund-raiser e made use of for the collection of contributions, the
expenses (remuneration and/or commission included) may not exceed 40% (forty percent) of
the total turnover of the collection.

16. Paid officials of the ORGANISATION may serve on the Board of Trustees in an advisory
capacity but will have no voting rights.

17. No competition, contest, game, scheme, arrangement or system in connection with which
any prize may be won shall be conducted or caused to be conducted by the ORGANISATION
unless an authority in terms of any other act has been obtained beforehand.

18. The financial year of the ORGANISATION will end on the last day of February in each year.