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Find out the details of your debt and repayments: If you have paid more than double how much you initially owed, you are not liable for more payments.
Unfortunately, you can't take your application back once it's been approved. You should get details about your umbrella fund's retirement due to ill health benefits.
You can contact the UIF Call Centre to ask that they help you. You can also lodge a complaint against the employee.
It would be best if you can get another trusted adult to go with you, but sometimes these processes at Home Affairs prove difficult.
In Islam, it states clearly that the husband is responsible for providing for his wife and children financially. But you may need legal help.
No, your wife's adultery during your marriage is not grounds for annulment, and you still have to split assets 50/50.
It would be helpful if one of your relatives came forward as a parental figure or guardian to help you apply.
It is illegal not to report a deceased estate. Perhaps telling your sibling this will spur them to action. Otherwise you can approach the Master's office for help.
Under the law of intestate succession, you can inherit as his life partner.
Unfortunately, if the deceased has living siblings, you will not inherit.