Identity area
Type of entity
Governmental body
Authorized form of name
Magistrate and Bantu Affairs Commissioner, Mount Ayliff
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- 1/MTA
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Contact area
Description area
Dates of existence
1878 – 1963
History
WH Read was appointed magistrate with Jojo, chief of the Xesibi tribe in August 1878 at Endambeni, later Mount Ayliff (General Directory of Cape of Good Hope, 1880, page 434). A court of the Resident Magistrate was established for the district of Mount Ayliff in October 1886 (Government Gazette no 6791 dated 26 October 1886, Proclamation no 174 dated 25 October 1886). For practical reasons the documents pertaining to the period prior to the establishment of a magistrate’s court for the district of Mount Ayliff are kept with this archives.
The Magistrate was also appointed as Native Commissioner as from 1 October 1928 (Government Gazette no 1734 dated 26 October 1928, Government Notice no 1865 dated 26 October 1928).
Places
Eastern Cape.
Cape Province.
Cape Colony.
Mount Ayliff.
Cape Province.
Cape Colony.
Mount Ayliff.
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
1/MTA
Institution identifier
KAB
Rules and/or conventions used
ISAAR
Status
Draft
Level of detail
Partial
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
21 April 2022 (creation Marise Bronkhorst)
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
- Latin
Sources
General Directory of Cape of Good Hope.
Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette.
Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette.