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The municipality can perform an evaluation on your father's RDP house.
Your friend should approach organisations such as Scalabrini, who help immigrants and refugees in South Africa.
You can report an illegal sale of an RDP house to the SAPS and your local Housing Department.
Yes, it seems that is allowed.
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.
You can contact the Judicial Inspectorate of Correctional Services or the ICCV complaint office at the prison.
Generally you can only apply for citizenship through naturalisation if you've only lived in South Africa until you were 18, but you could ask Home Affairs for an exception.
SASSA says that if you suspect wrongdoing like that, you must immediately contact their fraud hotline at 0800 601Ā 011, and give them the ID number.
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.