Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, South Africa: Registered...

FO 1117

1963-1969

This series contains registered files produced by the British Embassies in South Africa.

The series contains records produced on both embassy sites (at Cape Town and at Pretoria), and some files to which papers have been added bearing both Cape Town and Pretoria registry stamps, or joint embassy stamps.

Public Record(s)

English

• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, South Africa, 1968-1994
• Foreign Office, Embassy, South Africa, 1961-1968

7 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure

From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Topics

International

Africa

File series ran from 1961-1994

Series is accruing

Selected under Acquisition Policy criterion 2.2.1.3 showing the administration of UK relations with South Africa from 1961 when South Africa left the Commonwealth.

The Union of South Africa became a republic in May 1961, and withdrew from the Commonwealth. Responsibility for British relations with South Africa remained with the Commonwealth Relations Office until December of that year, when the Foreign Office assumed responsibility. The High Commissioner in post in May 1961 became the first British ambassador to South Africa, based in Pretoria. From 1964 to date the embassy (later the High Commission) was located at Cape Town from January to June, and at Pretoria for the rest of the year. This series contains records produced on both sites, and some files to which papers have been added bearing both Cape Town and Pretoria registry stamps, or joint embassy stamps.