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The " Wind of Change " speech was an address made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to the Parliament of South Africa on 3 February 1960 in Cape Town. He had spent a month in Africa in visiting a number of British colonies. [1] When the Labour Party was in government from 1945 to 1951, it had started a process of decolonisation, but ...
Jul 3, 2019 · The "Wind of Change" speech was made on 3 February 1960 by the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan whilst addressing the South African Parliament in Cape Town during his tour of African Commonwealth states. He had been on tour of Africa since 6 January that year, visiting Ghana, Nigeria, and other British colonies in Africa. It was a ...
Address by Harold Macmillan to Members of both Houses of the Parliament of the Union Of South Africa, Cape Town, 3 February 1960 It is, as I have said, a special privilege for me to be here in 1960 when you are celebrating what I might call the golden wedding of the Union. At such a time it is natural and right that you should pause to take ...
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Feb 3, 2005 · Harold Macmillan's "Wind of Change" Speech. By. Alistair Boddy-Evans. Updated on March 02, 2019. Made to the South Africa Parliament on 3 February 1960: It is, as I have said, a special privilege for me to be here in 1960 when you are celebrating what I might call the golden wedding of the Union. At such a time it is natural and right that you ...
The Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, has had a frosty reception from politicians in South Africa after speaking frankly against the country's system of apartheid. In a speech to MPs in the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town, Mr Macmillan spoke of the "wind of change" blowing through the continent of Africa, as more and more majority black ...
→ The end of the British EmpireMACMILLAN’S ‘WIND OF CHANGE’ SPEECH - 9½-minute videoIt was on this day in 1960 – 3 February – that British Prime Minister, Ha...
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The "Wind of Change" speech was an address made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to the Parliament of South Africa on 3 February 1960 in Cape Town. He had spent a month in Africa in visiting a number of British colonies. When the Labour Party was in government from 1945 to 1951, it had started a process of decolonisation, but the policy had been halted or at least slowed down by the ...
