Who inherits the house of a man who was married to but separated from one woman and in a long-term partnership with another?

The short answer It may be that your mother and children and the separated wife and her children are both entitled to inherit. The whole question Dear Athalie My mother, my siblings and I lived with my father in his house although he was married to another woman. There is a lobola letter for my mother. Can we change the title deed to my...

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Another Postbank “glitch” delays January social grant payments

“We came to the Post Office and they said there was no money” 11 January 2023 | By Marecia Damons On Friday, Postbank acknowledged that a glitch had prevented many social grant recipients from accessing their January 2023 payments. Postbank said the issue had been resolved. But GroundUp visited a Cape Town payment branch on Tuesday and found several beneficiaries had still not...

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Was I wrong for stopping my domestic worker’s UIF contributions when she applied for a SASSA grant?

The short answer You are supposed to pay UIF contributions until your employee stops working for you. The whole question Dear Athalie In April 2021, my domestic worker applied for a SASSA older person's grant. I then stopped contributing to her UIF because she would not be able to claim the benefits once she started receiving the grant. She kept working and officially retired...

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