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The fastest public way to track a deceased estate is through its statutory notices. Every estate administered under the Administration of Estates Act 66 of 1965 passes through two published checkpoints:
- the Section 29 notice to creditors (Form J193)
- the Section 35(5) notice that the Liquidation and Distribution Account is lying for inspection (Form J187)
Both are published in the Government Gazette and in a newspaper or online newspaper like Nuusflits. Both are searchable.
Search the Nuusflits Legal Notice Library
Every notice published through Legal Notice Publishing appears in the Nuusflits legal notice library. You can search the library by keyword and filter by:
- category, including deceased estates, estates: creditors and debtors, and estates: liquidation and distribution
- province, covering all nine
- publication date range
Each notice records the details you need to identify the estate and contact the right person:
- the deceased’s name and identity number
- date of birth and date of death
- last known address
- estate number
- the Master’s Office handling the estate
- the executor or authorised agent, with contact details
- the date of publication
What each notice tells you about the estate’s progress
A published Section 29 Notice to Creditors means Letters of Executorship have been issued and the executor has started administration. Creditors must lodge claims within the period the notice states, which under section 29(1) may not be less than thirty days or more than three months.
A published Section 35(5) notice means the Liquidation and Distribution Account has been lodged with the Master and is open for inspection for 21 days. This is the final stage before distribution and the window in which interested parties may object.
If Letters were issued months ago and no Section 29 notice has appeared, the estate has not properly started.
Browse complete weekly editions
The full edition archive presents each Nuusflits legal notice edition as a flipbook, organised by publication date and showing how many notices each edition carried. Use it to confirm exactly when and in which edition, a notice ran.
The notice record and the Master’s portal are separate
The Master of the High Court runs its own online portals for reporting and administration. The Nuusflits library is the public notice record: it shows what has been published about an estate, when it was published and who is administering it. For status queries at the Master’s Office, quote the estate number shown on the notice.
Contact Legal Notice Publishing today to help you place your statutory legal notices in Nuusflits country wide and the Government Gazette. Send an email to jana@legalnotice.co.za.
