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.