Talk:High Court of South Africa

Afrikaans translation
An anonymous editor 203.25.230.27 made many constructive contributions to this and related articles, but in all cases included an Afrikaans translation of the name in the opening paragraph. Since South Africa has 11 official languages, Afrikaans should not be singled out in this way. I would welcome discussion on this, but each time I attempted to contact the anonymous editor, these attempts were ignored, and each time I removed the Afrikaans translation, it was reinstated. See my talk page for more details. Zaian 08:02, 6 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I'd agree that it is silly and IMHO unencyclopeadic (sp) to include an Afrikaans translation of the name in an opening paragraph and that unless all official languages are given it is inappropriate. Surely it would be more profitable for the user to create an article in the Afrikaans wiki, resulting in a link on the sidebar. If of course a subject lends itself to different names in different languages then a discussion under a suitable heading would be useful - again however this would mean that there must be more than one language. Paul Hjul 22:04, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Jurisdiction - adoptions
As far as I understand the High Court does not deal with adoptions normally as they fall under the Children's Courts (which are part of the Magistrates Courts), also another matter of status divorce is handled only by the High Court and the specially established Divorce courts (well not so specially but you know what I mean). Leaving the comment be for a while to see if any more profitable input is made. Paul Hjul 12:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)


 * The whole tone of the article is wrong. Yes adoptions are handled by the children courts, but those enjoy the same status as the high courts. In truth the high courts are trumped by decisions in the Supreme court of Appeals and the Constitutional Court. South Africa does not have the federal system used in other Commonwealth countries such as Canada and Australia such as this article suggests.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

Rename proposal for Western Cape Division.
See discussion at Talk:Western Cape Division. &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 08:31, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Civil matter
I want to check my civil that i have been claimed an lost my practitioner contant i want to check how far is it going 41.13.72.158 (talk) 20:13, 27 January 2022 (UTC)