Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office: Southern Africa Department: Registered Files (SA Series)

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Reference: DO 180
Title: Commonwealth Relations Office: Southern Africa Department: Registered Files (SA Series)
Description:

This series contains records of the Southern Africa Department relating to British relations with South Africa.

Date: 1960-1961
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SA file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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Commonwealth Relations Office, Southern Africa Department, 1959-1961

Physical description: 14 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The Southern Africa Department was part of the Africa and General (1959-1960) and the Africa (1960-1961) Divisions of the Commonwealth Relations Office. It handled all aspects of the UK's relations with South Africa while it was part of the Commonwealth, and continued to do so after the Republic of South Africa left the Commonwealth in May 1961. Responsibility was passed to the Foreign Office in December 1961, at which time the Department was abolished.

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