On the 3rd February 1960 the then British Conservative Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, addressed the South African Parliament in Cape Town.
His speech became known as the infamous “Winds of change” speech in which he said:
His speech became known as the infamous “Winds of change” speech in which he said:
"The wind of change is blowing through this continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact."By the time he reached SA he was already on a month long tour through several other colonies in Africa, like Ghana, Nigeria, Nyasaland, and Rhodesia, and his address in Cape Town was basically aimed at the whites of Africa, and more specifically to sway the white South Africans to abandon Verwoerd's apartheid dogma.
