Guiding soon spread to other towns and Pretoria, Germiston, Benoni and King Williamstown also had Guide Companies.
Guiding had spread to other towns - Middelburg, Newcastle, Pietermaritzburg, Durban, Cape Town and towns in the Orange Free State.
Lady Buxton, wife of the Governor General called an important meeting at Government House in Cape Town, for "all who might be interested in Guiding”. At this meeting the Honourable Doreen Buxton was appointed Organising Commissioner.
Provincial Commissioners were appointed in the Cape.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell asked Lady Buxton to become the First President of Girl Guides in South Africa and to organise the Units into an Association.
Provincial Commissioners were appointed in the Transvaal and Natal .
Provincial Commissioners were appointed in the Orange Free State.
At a conference held in Johannesburg, a constitution was drawn up for the new organisation, The Girl Guides of South Africa. Mrs. Loveband Fulford (Transvaal Commissioner) was elected to succeed the Hon. Doreen Buxton as Organising Commissioner. The title ‘Organising Commissioner’ was then changed to Chief Commissioner and Mrs. Loveband Fulford became SA's first Chief Commissioner. Guiding in South Africa was very closely linked with London and Imperial Headquarters.
Guiding had grown so much that it was decided to divide the Cape Province into two Guiding Regions - Cape West and Cape East.
In the early years, a separate Association, the Wayfarers, had been started for black children but, in 1936 the Wayfarer Association was linked to the Girl Guide Association and the girls were known as Wayfarer Guides.
the term ‘Wayfarer’ was dropped and all girls became Guides without qualification.
the first South African Commissioner’s Conference was held in Somerset West.
the South African Girl Guides Association became totally independent from London and a new constitution was drawn up and published.
with ever increasing numbers in the Cape, it was decided to split into a further Guide Region. This region was to be known as Northern Cape.
was Diamond Jubilee Year. Guides all over the world celebrated sixty years of Guiding. The highlight in South Africa was the visit of Lady Baden-Powell who celebrated her 81st birthday in Cape Town on 22 February and was presented with a diamond from S.A. On her return to London this diamond was sold and the money was donated to World Guiding.
Northern Transvaal Region came into being.