What Was the ‘winds of Change’ Speech and Why is It Significant Towards Colonial Policy?

• Speech given by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in Cape Town, South Africa, 3^rd February 1960. Warned White South African Parliament that ‘the wind of change is blowing through this continent and whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a fact.’

Suggested a shift in Conservative and general British thinking towards Empire.