 Throughout the protectorate period from 1906 to 1968, Swaziland was largely governed by a resident commissioner who ruled according to decrees issued by the British High Commissioner for South Africa.Such decrees were formulated in close consultation with the resident commissioners, who in turn took informal and formal advice from white settler interests and the Swazi king.In 1907, during the residency of Robert Coryndon, Swazi land was partitioned into a third for the Swazi nation, or reserves, and the remaining two thirds as crown and commercial land, for European occupation.