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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.
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 601 011, 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.
No, but you can apply for compensation under ODMWA. You can also ask for help from the Q(h)ubeka Trust.
To get compensation, a former miner would have to have got either silicosis or TB through their work at qualifying mines between 12 March 1965 and 10 December 2019.
You can apply to change the child's surname and add your name on their birth certificate at Home Affairs, with the mother's consent.