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You can contact Home Affairs to appeal your status as a "prohibited person".
You are supposed to pay UIF contributions until your employee stops working for you.
This is unusual. You should follow up with the office where you made your application. If they can't help, contact the MEC, the Ombudsman or a legal organisation.
If she suspects there has been a mistake, she should query the account. Otherwise she may qualify for indigent relief, depending on her income.
There are other ways that you can prove your marriage to get divorced.
SASSA has warned that there will be delays in paying social grants after the income threshold was increased
A mother can register the child in the father's name if she has proof of marriage
If there is community leadership – like a committee that tracks ownership of shacks – you can contact them for help.
Yes, the process of transferring the property to the buyer can only happen once the rates have been paid.
Legal permission to work in South Africa is accessed by getting a visa. In you case it can be a relatives visa, spousal visa or life partner visa