With effect from the beginning of March 2009, the names of the High Courts in South Africa. The High Courts (previously Supreme Courts) are the courts in which generally matters exceeding the magistrates court jurisdictional limit of R 100 000.00, are sued out of. In addition the High courts have jurisdiction over certain other matters, such as sequestrations, which the magistrates court do not have jurisdiction over.

For businesses that use commercial agreements that refer to a specific High court they will now have to describe the court in which the proceedings will take place using  the new names or the seat of court.

The new names of the various High Court divisions are set out below.