"dependant of an employee"
means—
| (a) | a widow or widower who at the time of the employee’s death was married to the employee according to civil law; |
| (b) | a widow or widower who at the time of the employee’s death was a party to a marriage to the employee according to indigenous law and custom, if neither the husband nor the wife was a party to a subsisting civil marriage; |
| (c) | if there is no widow or widower referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), person with whom the employee was at the time of the employee’s death living as husband and wife; |
| (d) | a child under the age of 18 years of the employee or of his or her spouse, and includes a posthumous child, a step-child, an adopted child and a child born out of wedlock; |
| (e) | a child over the age of 18 years of the employee or of his or her spouse, and a parent or any person who in the opinion of the Director-General was acting in the place of a parent, a brother, a sister, a half-brother or half-sister, a grandparent or a grandchild of the employee; |
and who was in the opinion of the Director-General at the time of the employee’s death wholly or partly financially dependent upon the employee;
[Definition substituted by section 1(d) of Act No. 61 of 1997]