  We have used the central 44 antennas of the new 64-dish MeerKAT radio
telescope array to conduct a deep search for new pulsars in the core of nine
globular clusters. This has led to the discovery of eight new millisecond
pulsars in six different clusters. Two new binaries, 47 Tuc ac and 47 Tuc ad,
are eclipsing "spiders", featuring compact orbits ($\lesssim 0.32$ days), very
low-mass companions and regular occultations of their pulsed emission. The
other three new binary pulsars (NGC 6624G, M62G, and Ter 5 an) are in wider ($>
0.7$ days) orbits, with companions that are likely to be white dwarfs or
neutron stars. NGC 6624G has a large eccentricity of $e\simeq 0.38$, which
enabled us to detect the rate of advance of periastron. This suggests that the
system is massive, with a total mass of $M{\rm tot} = 2.65 \pm 0.07$
M$_{\odot}$. Likewise, for Ter 5 an, with $e \simeq 0.0066$, we obtain $M{\rm
tot}= 2.97 \pm 0.52$ M$_{\odot}$. The other three new discoveries (NGC 6522D,
NGC 6624H and NGC 6752F) are faint isolated pulsars. Finally, we have used the
whole MeerKAT array and synthesized 288 beams, covering an area of $\sim2$
arcmin in radius around the center of NGC 6624. This has allowed us to localize
many of the pulsars in the cluster, demonstrating the beamforming capabilities
of the TRAPUM software backend and paving the way for the upcoming MeerKAT
globular cluster pulsar survey.
