Membership is open to all higher and further education institutions and organisations including both state funded and private institutions. The membership is not limited to South Africa only.

An educational institution automatically becomes an institutional member if a staff member or members of the institution register for the annual conference and pay the required conference registration fees.

An institutional member is not limited to the number of staff members that are delegated on behalf of the institution to attend the annual conference or workshops conducted by SASFF subject to par. 4.5 hereunder.

Staff members from the Student Finance administration function will be eligible to be elected to the Board of Directors.

Delegates representing an institutional member shall collectively represent the member institution at Annual General Meetings of SASFF and make recommendations on behalf of the institution.

Private companies from the financial services sector, national government represented by DHET USAf, NPOs, law firms and credit and collection industry, may join SASFF as associate members. The conditions of associate membership are as follow:

As in the case of institutional membership the registration of any delegated representative from an organization / company as referred to above, for any annual conference and payment of the conference fee, will automatically allow such an organization / company as an associate member of SASFF.

Associate members are not eligible to be nominated for serving on the Board, but the elected Board may co-opt an associate member to serve on the Board.

Associate members are not eligible to vote as institutional members at the AGM, but are entitled to all other rights assigned to higher education institutions’ members in terms of this constitution.   

A list of institutional members can be viewed here.