Macmillan tells Parliament a wind of change is blowing

On 3 February 1960 the British prime minister Harold Macmillan ended a tour of Africa with a speech to both houses of the South African Parliament in Cape Town. The wind of change, he said, was blowing through the continent, and national consciousness was a political fact that policy had to take account of. Hendrik Verwoerd, replying at once, took it as a rebuke of apartheid. Seven weeks later came Sharpeville.