It covered the Walvis Bay territory, an exclave of the Cape inside South West Africa (the future Namibia).

The first challenge to the Cape Qualified Franchise came with the Women's Enfranchisement Act, 1930 and the Franchise Laws Amendment Act, 1931, which extended the vote to women and removed property qualifications for the white population only – non-white voters remained subject to the earlier restrictions.

[2] During this period, it was first unrepresented in the Union Parliament, and then (from 1950) represented as part of South West Africa's parliamentary delegation.

[6] South West Africa's white electorate had always been strongly supportive of the National Party,[7] and this was true of Walvis Bay as well.

With the transfer of the Walvis Bay territory to Namibia on 1 March 1994, two months before the first non-racial general election in South Africa's history, the constituency was abolished.