→ The end of the British Empire MACMILLAN’S ‘WIND OF CHANGE’ SPEECH - 9½-minute video It was on this day in 1960 – 3 February – that British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, gave his famous ‘Wind of Change’ speech in the Parliament at Cape Town, South Africa. It was a hugely significant and brave speech, because Mr Macmillan spoke out against the apartheid regime in South Africa. Although he received a polite applause at the end, his words were met with a frosty reception. The British governmen