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The executor of the will can contact the Registrar of the High Court where the divorce was finalised and ask for a copy.
The municipality can perform an evaluation on your father's RDP house.
You will need to visit municipal housing office where your mother applied to ask them whether you would be able to claim back her RDP.
If a child is disabled and was financially dependent on the GEPF member, that child would receive a lifelong pension.
Go to your housing municipality and confirm that the birth certificate used was fraudulent and then file a formal complaint.
To get compensation, a former miner would have to have got either silicosis or TB through their work at qualifying mines between 12 March 1965 and 10 December 2019.
You could go to the Master of the High Court’s office with all your details, and ask if the Master has granted someone the letter of authority and who it is.
You may have to ask the Master's Office to intervene if the executor refuses to wind up the estate.
You can go to your local housing office with your grandmother's death certificate to find out whose name the tenancy is in and request to take it over.
If the deceased father did not leave a will, the law of Intestate Succession applies. If the son was not named on the title deed, he is not authorised to sell the house.