Talk:Western Cape Division

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Eastern/Northern Cape provincial divisions[edit]

How did the Grahamstown and Kimberley local divisions get elevated to the provincial divisions of the Eastern Cape and the Northern Cape in 1957 and 1969 respectively when those provinces did not exist at the time? 196.23.50.162 (talk) 17:01, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Basically, the Cape Province was so big that the government decided to treat it as two, and later three, provinces for judicial purposes. (The relevant laws are the General Law Amendment Act 68 of 1957, and the Establishment of the Northern Cape Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa Act 15 of 1969.) Since 1957 the "provincial divisions" have not corresponded exactly to actual provinces - they still don't, particularly in the former Transvaal. The division in 1994 of the Cape into Western, Eastern and Northern provinces reflected an already-existing division of the judiciary, rather than the reverse. - htonl (talk) 18:57, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to Western Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa[edit]

Western Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa is the correct name and is less likely to confuse than the current name which could apply to any organisation with a division in the Western Cape. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 10:23, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I would suggest we take this discussion to Talk:High Court of South Africa since it would apply equally to the articles of all the divisions (except North West Division of the High Court of South Africa which is already named that way for disambiguation). - htonl (talk) 20:49, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have left a link to this discussion there. If you think the actual discussion should be hosted there, go ahead and move it, as long as it is clear where the discussion is and it is not split. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 08:37, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to continue the discussion here. I think the change is unnecessary - other organisations may have divisions named after the provinces, but I doubt any of them are notable enough for a Wikipedia article. If one comes to our attention, we could rename to disambiguate at that point. - htonl (talk) 11:50, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]