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You can prove you are the executor of an estate by producing the Letters of Executorship (LoE) or Letters of Authority (LoA) as issued by the office of the Master of the High Court. You can be nominated as an executor in one of two ways:

• The deceased could nominate you as executor of the estate in their last will and testament.

• If the deceased did not have a will, or did not nominate an executor in their will, the nominated beneficiaries could nominate you as executor of the estate.