The Master of the High Court of South Africa is a judicial institution under the national government of South Africa.
The mission of the Master of the High Court of South Africa is to provide efficient, cost-effective and specialised services of supervision, custodianship, arbitration and information regarding deceased and insolvent estates and trusts, serving estate practitioners, beneficiaries of estates and trusts, minors, and mentally challenged persons in South Africa for the purpose of safeguarding those beneficiaries’ financial and proprietary rights.
The Master’s office has five main divisions. They all strive to protect the financial interests of persons whose assets or interests are, for various reasons, being managed by others.
The Master of the High Court’s offices executes, inter alia, the following functions:
- Regulation and supervision of the administration of estates of deceased and insolvent persons in accordance with the applicable statutory prescriptions
- Protection of the interests of minors and legally incapacitated persons
- Protection and administration of the funds of minors, the contractually incapacitated, and undetermined and absent heirs that have been paid into the Guardian’s Fund
- Supervision of the administration of companies and close corporations in accordance with the relevant statutory prescriptions
- Supervision of the adminitration of trusts
- Safeguarding of all documentary material received by the Master in respect of estates, insolvencies, liquidations and trusts
- Processing of enquiries by executors, attorneys, beneficiaries and other interested parties
- Appointment of impartial and capable persons as executors, trustees, curators and liquidators
Overseeing Department/Entity
Office Bearers/Management
Masters of High Court
- Ms Zureena Agulhas (Cape Town)
- Mr Roy Arries (Mafikeng [Mmabatho])
- Ms Khulula Baneti (Bisho)
- Ms Euphemia Daniels (Grahamstown [Makhanda] and Port Elizabeth [Gqeberha])
- Mr Simon Jozana (Mthatha [Umtata])
- Adv Kanyane Mathibe (Acting)
- Mrs LB Moatlhudi (Pietermaritzburg)
- Mr Buti Mohapi (Bloemfontein)
- Ms Hlonipha Moshidi (Mbombela)
- Mr Walter Mulaudzi (Acting: Johannesburg)
- Mr Walter Nemaukhwe (Polokwane)
- Ms Ziyanda Nondabula (Thohoyandou)
- Mr Edric Pascoe (Durban)
- Mr Rufus Ramonetha (Acting: Pretoria)
- Ms Merildene Scholtz (Acting: Kimberley)
Senior Management
- Ms Euphemia Daniels (Acting Chief Director: Operations)
- Adv Kanyane Mathibe (Chief Director: Strategy and Policy)
Communications Officers
- Ms Julia Bele (PA: Office of the Chief Master)
- Ms Vivian Nedzingahe (Assistant Director: Office of the Chief Master)
- Ms Tebogo Tladi (Office of the Chief Master)
- Ms Thelma Nobesotho Zwane (PA Chief Director: Strategy and Policy)
Contact Details
The contact details of the Master of the High Court of South Africa are listed in the table below.
| Physical Address: | 2nd Floor Mbombela High Court Administration Buiding, 52 Samora Machel Drive, West Acres, Nelspruit, 1201 |
| Postal Address: | Private Bag X11260, Nelspruit, 1200 |
| Telephone: | 013 101 3721 |
| Email: | chiefmaster@justice.gov.za |
| Website: | www.justice.gov.za/master |
