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No, SASSA does not register policies for disability grant recipients.
Home Affairs should help you, but you will have to give a "good and sufficient reason"
Yes because you do not have to live together. There is no minimum period of marriage either.
No, you need to discuss the issue with the provident fund itself.
Not unless he wrote a will. You cannot remarry if you are still in a civil law marriage.
You would start by getting a referral from a doctor to the Transgender Clinic at Groote Schuur.
You can contact Corruption Watch, SAIDI or the government's anti-corruption hotline.
No, you need to apply for a life partner visa.
Yes, they should if at least one parent is a South African citizen.
Not without the first wife and the court's permission