Examination of museum collections and of recently collected materials from South Africa lead to the discovery of the following eight new jumping spider species that are described here: Evarcha amanzi sp. nov. (♂), E. villosa sp. nov. (♂), Langellurillus squamiger sp. nov. (♂♀), Massagris maculosa sp. nov. (♂ ♀), Microbianor simplex sp. nov. (♂), Pseudicius procerus sp. nov. (♂ ♀), Rhene legitima sp. nov. (♂) and Thyenula splendens sp. nov. (♂ ♀). Massagris concortuplicata Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 syn. nov. is newly synonymized with M. mirifica Peckham & Peckham, 1903, and both sexes are redescribed. The unknown males of Asemonea amatola Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013, Heliophanus gramineus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 and Menemerus rubicundus Lawrence, 1928, and the unknown females of H. sororius Wesołowska, 2003, Massagris natalensis Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009, Microbianor furcatus Haddad & Wesołowska, 2013, Rhene amanzi Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 and R. pinguis Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009 are described for the first time. The females of Menemerus rubicundus and Neaetha irreperta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000, and males of Evarcha acuta Wesołowska, 2006, E. karas Wesołowska, 2011 and Habrocestum luculentum Peckham & Peckham, 1903, are redescribed. Seven species are recorded from South Africa for the first time: Belippo calcarata (Roewer, 1942), Dendryphantes acutus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014, Evarcha acuta, E. karas, M. rubicundus, N. irreperta and Pseudicius matabelensis Wesołowska, 2011. Additionally, new provincial records for species previously recorded from elsewhere in South Africa are provided for the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (five spp. each), Free State (three spp.), Northern Cape (two spp.), and Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces (one sp. each).