Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office: Southern Africa Department: Original Correspondence

CO 1048

1960-1968

This series contains records of the Southern Africa Department. The records relate to the South African High Commission Territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland. They cover, principally, constitutional reform, development projects and their funding, political parties in the individual territories, political refugees from South Africa, land tenure and criminal justice.

The series includes files from the BBS series which would otherwise be found in DO 157.

For Commonwealth Relations Office files on Swaziland only, see:

For Commonwealth Relations Office files on Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland see DO 212 FCO 31 FCO 45

Public Record(s)

English

• Colonial Office, Southern Africa Department, 1962-1966
• Commonwealth Office, Southern Africa Department, 1966-1968

972 file(s)

Open

From 1993 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Topics

Refugees

International

Africa

Series is accruing

The Colonial Office assumed responsibility for the three South African High Commission Territories (Bechuanaland, Basutoland, and Swaziland) in 1960 following the re-organisation of government responsibilities dealing with new or soon to be independent Commonwealth countries and the subsequent transfer of responsibility for these three particular territories from the Commonwealth Relations Office to the Colonial Office in 1961. Responsibility remained with the Colonial Office until August 1966 when the Commonwealth Office was formed.