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Was it legal for my grandfather to sell my father s RDP house and how can my mother claim the title deed?
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Was it legal for my grandfather to sell my late father s RDP house without my mother s knowledge or permission? How can my mother claim the title deed?
The long answer
1. It was almost certainly not legal for your grandfather to sell the house without your mother’s knowledge or permission. Even if your father had named your grandfather as his heir in his will, if your father and mother were married in community of property, your mother would be entitled to her half share of their joint property, when your father died. The other half would be distributed according to his will. If he died without a will, which is called intestate, she would inherit the property. This is the order in which people inherit in intestate succession:
[ADVOCACY] SERI co-host a webinar on engaging courts to further worker rights (12 May 2021).
On 5 May, SERI, Solidarity Center and Women’s Legal Centre co-hosted a webinar on worker’s rights, intersectionality and accessing justice through litigation, entitled, “Engaging Courts to Further Worker Rights: Mahlangu and Beyond”.
The webinar discussed the recent milestone judgment of the Constitutional Court of South Africa,
Mahlangu v the Minister of Labour, in which the Court handed down an order declaring the constitutional invalidity of section 1(xix)(v) of the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (COIDA) which excluded domestic workers employed in private households from the definition of employee , precluding them from claiming from the Compensation Fund for work-related injuries, illnesses or death. The Court also ruled th
SA religious sector outraged at proposal to allow women to marry more than one man
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Cape Town - Political parties which draw their support from religious voters have slammed a proposed change to South Africaâs marriage laws which could see a woman marrying more than one man.
The legalisation of polyandry is just one of a number of wide-ranging proposals in the Green Paper which the Department of Home Affairs said it has gazetted in a bid to invite substantive comments from the public.
Al Jama-ah Party leader Ganief Hendricks said his party would support street protests if a proposal on polyandry contained in a government Green Paper on marriage is included in legislation. It was the governmentâs responsibility to âuphold decent moral valuesâ, he said.
Lawmakers passing the country s same-sex marriage bill s first vote in parliament s lower chamber April 29 thrilled LGBTQ Czechs.
At the same time, the split government also voted on the opposition s bill to constitutionally ban same-sex marriage, which also passed. However, it would need a higher threshold to become law.
Czeslaw Walek, chairman of Prague Pride and head of We Are Fair Campaign, the country s organization fighting for marriage equality, was thrilled by the vote on the marriage bill, calling it a huge success, in an email to the Bay Area Reporter. It sent a signal that the change is possible if we vote for representatives that support our cause, he wrote, referring to the Easter European country s forthcoming October general election.