AFHCO is the Africa Housing Company, a Johannesburg residential property business letting and managing rental accommodation, largely in the inner city. The contact details below were read from the AFHCO website on 31 August 2026.
Official contact channels
- Telephone: 010 040 7599
- Email: [email protected]
At the time of checking, the AFHCO website was down for scheduled maintenance. The company published the two contact routes above on the maintenance page itself, noting that its offices remained open as usual – so these are current rather than cached details.
The 010 prefix is a Johannesburg geographic line, charged as a normal call.
What this organisation provides
AFHCO lets and manages residential rental accommodation, and also operates commercial and retail space within its buildings. Most people contacting it are tenants or prospective tenants dealing with an application, a lease, a deposit, maintenance or a rental account.
Before contacting AFHCO, have your lease or tenant reference number, the building name and unit number, and your identity number. For a maintenance report, note when the problem started and photograph it – a dated photograph is what settles most later disputes about who caused damage and when it was reported.
Two things are worth knowing about any South African residential lease, and both are frequent sources of dispute:
- Incoming and outgoing inspections. The Rental Housing Act requires a joint inspection at the start and end of a lease. Insist on both, and keep your signed copy – a landlord cannot fairly deduct for damage that was never recorded as absent at the start.
- Your deposit earns interest and must be repaid with it, less any lawful deductions supported by receipts, within the period set by the Act after you vacate.
Address and operating information
AFHCO did not publish a street address or office hours on the page available at the time of checking, stating only that its offices were open as usual during the website maintenance. Confirm the office location and hours on 010 040 7599 before travelling.
Because AFHCO manages many buildings, each with its own on-site management, the building manager is usually the faster route for a maintenance or access problem, and head office is the route for a lease, account or deposit matter.
Support and escalation routes
Raise the matter with the building manager first where it concerns the premises, then head office on 010 040 7599 or [email protected]. Put anything about money, deposits or a lease in writing and keep the reference – rental disputes are decided on documents.
If AFHCO does not resolve it, tenants have a free statutory route:
- The Rental Housing Tribunal in the province where the property is located. It resolves disputes between landlords and tenants – unfair deductions, deposit repayment, unlawful eviction, maintenance failures and rental increases – at no cost to either party, and its rulings are binding.
- The National Consumer Commission, under the Consumer Protection Act, where the complaint concerns the conduct of the business rather than the tenancy itself.
The Tribunal is the more useful of the two for a tenant. It is free, it is designed for exactly these disputes, and you do not need a lawyer to approach it. No landlord may evict a tenant without a court order, whatever a lease says – a lock-out or a utility disconnection to force a tenant out is unlawful and is itself a Tribunal matter.
Sources
- afhco.co.za published contact details, read 31 August 2026