Magistrate and Bantu Affairs Commissioner, Whittlesea

Identity area

Type of entity

Governmental body

Authorized form of name

Magistrate and Bantu Affairs Commissioner, Whittlesea

Parallel form(s) of name

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

  • 1/WSA

Other form(s) of name

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Description area

Dates of existence

1904 – 1977

History

A Special Justice of the Peace was appointed at Whittlesea in the district of Queenstown on 1 September 1904 (Government Gazette No 8678 dated 26 August 1904, Proclamation No 267 dated 26 August 1904). According to the records he started hearing cases only in January 1932. On 12 September 1938 Whittlesea was named a place for holding a magistrate’s court in addition to Queenstown, the seat of the magistracy (Government Gazette No 2576 dated 7 October 1938, Proclamation No 217 dated 12 September 1938).

Although an Assistant Native Commissioner held court at Whittlesea since August 1929, he was officially appointed only on 1 April 1933 and on 25 August 1934 received criminal jurisdiction (Government Gazette No 2129 dated 14 July 1933, Government Notice No 970 dated 14 July 1933; Government Gazette No 2221 dated 7 September 1934, Proclamation No 161 dated 25 August 1934).

From 1968 the Magistrate of Whittlesea fell under the jurisdiction of the Ciskeian Government and on 1 October 1971 the district of Hewu, with Sada as the seat of the court, was established (Government Gazette No 3237 dated 27 August 1971, Government Notice No 1482 dated 27 August 1971).

Places

Eastern Cape.
Ciskei.
Cape Province.
Cape Colony.
Whittlesea.

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Functions, occupations and activities

Mandates/sources of authority

Internal structures/genealogy

General context

Relationships area

Access points area

Occupations

Control area

Authority record identifier

1/WSA

Institution identifier

KAB

Rules and/or conventions used

ISAAR

Status

Draft

Level of detail

Partial

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

29 April 2022 (creation Marise Bronkhorst)

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

  • Latin

Sources

Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette.
Government Gazette.

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