Answer to a question from a reader
The person who sold my mother her RDP house has died and her children are claiming the property is theirs. What can I do?
The short answer
You could take your mother to Legal Aid and ask them to approach the court for a declaratory order that your mother is the legal owner of the house.
The whole question
My mother bought an RDP house from a woman in 2005 for R25,000. The woman has recently died. Now her adult children want the house which we extended. They claim their mother never sold the house and she is still the registered owner with the deeds office. The only proof of purchase my mother has is an affidavit made at the police station by both parties. How do we then go about getting the property into my mother's name? There is no title deed for the house issued as far as we know. Please help.