Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kodayake akwai farkon mazaunan Burtaniya a tashar jiragen ruwa a gabar tekun Afirka ta Yamma don sauƙaƙe kasuwancin bayi na Burtaniya na Atlantic, mazaunin Burtaniya na dindindin a Afirka bai fara da gaske ba har zuwa ƙarshen ƙarni na goma sha takwas, a Cape of Good Hope. Birnin Biritaniya a Cape ya sami ci gaba bayan da Biritaniya ta sake mamaye Dutch Cape Colony a 1806. Gwamnati ta karfafa wa 'yan mulkin mallaka na Burtaniya a Albany ("Settler Country") a cikin 1820 don karfafa iyakar gabashin mulkin mallaka na Cape Colony na Burtaniya a lokacin Yaƙin Cape Frontier
a kan Xhosa. Sarautar ta ayyana Natal a kudu maso gabashin Afirka a matsayin mulkin mallaka na Burtaniya a 1843. Bayan shan kashi na Boers a cikin Yaƙin Boer na biyu a 1902, Burtaniya ta haɗu da Jamhuriyar Boer na Jamhuriyar Transvaal da Orange Free State.