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Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, South Africa: Registered Files
| Reference: | FO 1117 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, South Africa: Registered Files |
| Description: |
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. |
| Date: | 1963-1969 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, South Africa, 1968-1994 Foreign Office, Embassy, South Africa, 1961-1968 |
| Physical description: | 7 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Accumulation dates: | File series ran from 1961-1994 |
| Selection and destruction information: | 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. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
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. |
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