The Swaziland Protectorate was administered through the Office of the High Commissioner in South Africa, which was created in 1878. The High Commissioner in and for South Africa flew a British Union Flag charged in the centre, on a white roundel, with the letters S.A.H.C. in black above a Tudor Crown, within a green garland of laurel. This flag, which came into use in 1907, was used until 1931.