Do NOT use ABSA as your WILL executor!! Please do your research first.

My late mother had passed in October 2021. This is now more than a year later and the estate is still not registered or the executor appointed. To get any feedback from ABSA is a challenge. I had to do ALL the paperwork and so far ABSA had one task, to register the estate. I would strongly advise that before you take your will to ABSA that you do your research. They are at best pathetic. One would think that in a time of bereavement, ABSA would at least try to do their part, but sadly not. To try and contest the executor later on is a legal process and ABSA being a corporate does not care for you and me. They have the financial backing and once you signed the will appointing ABSA as the executor, yes, your are at their mercy. They just do not care what precarious situation the inheritors finds themselves in with properties that needs to be upkept and car licenses kept paid up. They sit behind their desks and believe me your are just another number and source of income to ABSA. The sad thing about it all i that you and me can not change anything, ABSA will find some excuse if you are lucky, but more often just plain ignore the outcries of their clients soon to be ex-clients. Hope that by posting this grievance, there will be more (in the masses) that will add their voice of frustration. Maybe then a big corporate will listen when their income declines.