Almost 400 emails, still the same status

June 2022 I Have send my first communication email to the Masters office in PTA. I added a few email addresses to the email because I was not sure who to contact in connection with a will that has been dormant from 2008 and was registered at the PTA office.

Never received a reply email from any of the email addresses.

I emailed again about a month later to the same email addresses and more email addresses. And I kept on emailing adding more email addresses higher up in the ranks.

I started getting some replies when I started adding news paper email addresses to the list.

In October 2022 I finally got the right person who is handling the estate. So know I have a contact person and contact details. Finally I thought we are getting some where. I was thinking totally wrong.

It took from June 2022 until October 2022 and lots of emails to get to the right contact person. Even adding the provincial heads of the department onto the emailing list. And off course they are all non responsive.

The contact person was also having the same kind of disease. Non responsiveness. A reply on one email can take up to a month.

I have even included the president hotline email address. Guess what? They also have the same disease of non responsiveness. April 2023 and still had no reply from the president hotline on my complaints.

End November 2022 the file was finally pulled from the archives. Almost six months later. I thought finally now we can get somewhere with the winding up of the estate at least. Thought wrong again.

January 2023 we where still standing at the same status of not getting anywhere fast. Still struggling to get a new representative registered so that we can get to a point to start to finalize and wind up the estate that has been lying dormant since 2008. 15 years is a very long time.

By end January 2023 I realized it is a losing battle. There is just no help. All you hit is walls. Then another wall. Then another wall. So I stopped communicating after sending almost 400 emails since June 2022.

I guess the file went back to the archive department where it can rot now. I have really tried to get that estate winded up and finalized. But for some odd reason the PTA Masters office think it is better for the estate to keep lying dormant in there archives. Who can fight against a system that does not care?