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William Raspberry notes that the wind of change, after blowing through Eastern Europe and elsewhere, has now reached South Africa, ”of all places.” It was Harold Macmillan, then British prime minister, who first claimed
(on Feb. 3, 1960) that ”a wind of change is blowing through Africa.” His original audience was reluctant to believe him. He was speaking in Cape Town to members of both houses of the parliament of the Union of South Africa.
