 The bank issued banknotes for circulation in South West Africa between 1949 and 1959 from its Windhoek branch.Volkskas was formally opened on February 1, 1935 in the De Villiers building in Pretoria by J.J. Bosman and a typist.It was registered as a cooperative loan bank under the Co-Operative Societies Act and thus began serving Afrikaners forced by the Great Depression to move to the city between 1929 and 1933.