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Because your parents were married in community of property, your mother has claim to 50% of the joint estate and might be able to overturn the transfer.
The seller can name their price for their property but cannot change their mind after the offer to purchase has been signed.
It is illegal not to pay your domestic worker's UIF. Your mother should apply for social grants and housing.
If you don't buy the house, your chances of recovering the money aren't very good.
Yes, if she relies on you for financial support.
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It could mean that the application was withdrawn by the municipality.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.
If you earn between R3,500 and R22,000, you qualify for "gap" housing, like the Finance Linked Individual Subsidy Programme.
No, it's illegal - the municipality would consider this as land invasion.