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Since you have a letter of authority, you can get a court order from the magistrate to start the eviction process.
If the title deed is in your stepmother's name, the house belongs to her.
Your landlord can’t evict you or change your lease without your agreement. You can challenge this through the housing tribunal.
Use a mediator or a Master of the High Court to help resolve the disagreements.
The municipality can perform an evaluation on your father's RDP house.
You can report an illegal sale of an RDP house to the SAPS and your local Housing Department.
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.
Go to your housing municipality and confirm that the birth certificate used was fraudulent and then file a formal complaint.
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 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.