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The municipality should help you, but you may have better luck contacting a humanitarian organisation.
It could mean that the application was withdrawn by the municipality.
It depends on whether the person has testamentary capacity, which is explained below.
The assets are kept in an account under the supervision of the Master of the High Court until the child turns 18.
You will have to provide some proof of the marriage, like lobola letters of a letter from the chief.
You have to contact SASSA.
They will not qualify for government support, but there may be community programmes that could help.
The UIF website does not specify what type of marriage certificate is needed, so it seems unlikely.
No, it's illegal - the municipality would consider this as land invasion.