Bantu Affairs Commissioner, Cape Peninsula

Identity area

Type of entity

Governmental body

Authorized form of name

Bantu Affairs Commissioner, Cape Peninsula

Parallel form(s) of name

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

  • 2/OBS

Other form(s) of name

Identifiers for corporate bodies

Contact area

Description area

Dates of existence

1928 - 1981

History

A Native Commissioner for the district of the Cape was appointed with effect from 1 October 1928. Simultaneously an Assistant Native Commissioner for the districts of the Cape, Wynberg and Simonstown and the sub-district of Somerset West was appointed. Criminal jurisdiction was conferred upon the Assistant Native Commissioner for the district of Wynberg as from 19 August 1935. At the same time a Native Commissioner for Wynberg, who was to hold court sessions at Langa on Mondays, was appointed. On 17 February 1937 this court was abolished and replaced by a Native Commissioner’s Court for the districts of the Cape, Wynberg and Simonstown, with court sessions to be held in Cape Town and Langa. On 16 September 1939 Cape Town was replaced by Salt River as one of the seats of the court.

In 1941 criminal jurisdiction was conferred upon the Native Commissioner of Salt River. A court of the Native Commissioner of the Cape Peninsula, comprising the magisterial districts of the Cape, Bellville, Simonstown and Wynberg, was constituted on 22 December 1951 and criminal jurisdiction conferred upon the Native Commissioner. The designation was later changed to Bantu Affairs Commissioner, and still later to Commissioner.

Places

Cape Town.
Cape Peninsula.
Cape Province.

Legal status

Functions, occupations and activities

Mandates/sources of authority

Internal structures/genealogy

General context

Relationships area

Access points area

Occupations

Control area

Authority record identifier

2/OBS

Institution identifier

KAB

Rules and/or conventions used

ISAAR

Status

Draft

Level of detail

Partial

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

27 October 2022 (creation Marise Bronkhorst)

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

  • Latin

Sources

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