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Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Southern African Department...
Catalogue reference: FCO 45
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FCO 45
This series contains the records of Southern Africa Department and the West Indian 'A' and Swaziland Department relating to United Kingdom and Commonwealth relations with Swaziland between January 1967 and October 1968, and from October 1968...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 45
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Southern African Department and predecessors: Registered Files (SAD and CS Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1963-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the records of Southern Africa Department and the West Indian 'A' and Swaziland Department relating to United Kingdom and Commonwealth relations with Swaziland between January 1967 and October 1968, and from October 1968 records of the Southern African Department dealing with UK relations with Botswana, Lesotho, the Malagasy Republic, Zambia, South Africa and South West Africa, Malawi, Swaziland and Portuguese Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, Principe and São Tomé).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By former file reference
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For earlier Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office records relating to relations with Swaziland see CO 1048 DO 212 DO 213
For records of the Central African Department see FCO 106
For records of the Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office, East Africa Departments, see:
For records of the Southern African Department see FCO 105
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- SAD file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Commonwealth Office, Southern Africa Department, 1966-1968
- Commonwealth Office, West Indian A and Swaziland Department, 1967-1968
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Central and Southern Africa Department, 1969-1979
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Southern African Department, 1968-1969
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2639 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Africa
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accurals are expected
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Relations with Swaziland were managed by the Southern Africa Department of the Commonwealth Office until an internal reorganisation abolished the department and responsibility passed to the West Indian 'A' and Swaziland Department in July 1967.
Swaziland gained independence in the Commonwealth in September 1968, but there was no change in responsibility for relations with Swaziland until the general reorganisation which accompanied the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968, when responsibility for Swaziland passed to the Southern African Department.
The department had responsibility for relations with all of Southern Africa (except Rhodesia), and the remaining Portuguese possessions in Africa generally, and Angola and Mozambique particularly. It was replaced in 1969 by the Central and Southern Africa Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15098/
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