Answers to your questions

Can ZEP holders still meet FICA requirements since the permit was scrapped?

Yes, the court ruled that the ZEP was to be deemed still valid until June 2024.

Immigration

The managing body corporate of my community scheme houses are failing to attend to complaints. What can I do?

The Community Schemes Ombud Service is there to regulate the way parties within community schemes behave.

Housing

What can we do about my sister's ID that has an error? Home Affairs has not helped us for over 3 years now.

You should get a lawyer to take on Home Affairs.

Home Affairs

Can I use a DNA test to prove that I am the child of a South African citizen and use the results to get citizenship?

Yes, a sibling DNA test can indeed establish whether half-siblings share a biological father.

Immigration

How do I refund the person I sold my numbered shack to and get my shack back?

Now that the money has been paid, you can’t reverse the sale of the shack.

Housing

Is it legal for the Estate Administrators to finalise the deceased estates of my mother and my father concurrently?

The present executor is allowed to finalise the two estates concurrently.

Inheritance

What can I do about the municipality crediting my rates, in error, to the previous owner of the house?

The municipality has to rectify the issue, but you will likely need to settle the bill pending resolution of the dispute.

Housing

What should I do if I cannot afford to pay my debt to SARS within their timeframe?

SARS would have considered that you had defaulted on your previous payment arrangement. That would have weakened your case to be granted another payment deferment arrangement by SARS.

Debt

I was denied a student visa because my name is on an “internal control list” but I have never even been to South Africa. What can I do?

The simplest route would probably be to get help from an organisation that regularly deals with Home Affairs' dysfunction.

Home Affairs Tertiary Education

What can my mother do to get funding for the old age community centre she has started on the municipal plot where she lives?

She could ask the municipality if they could endorse the project and give her official approval for it.

Land