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PREM19/923
South Africa (Internal situation; relations with UK) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 212
Themes: Foreign policy (International organizations), Commonwealth (general), Commonwealth (South Africa), Race, immigration, nationality, Religion & morality

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Date Value Title
81 Apr 28 Tu Major South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“General Election”) [declassified 2012]
81 Apr 30 Th Major South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“South African General Election”) [declassified 2012]
81 Apr 30 Th Major South Africa: No.10 minute to MOD (“Arms Embargo on South Africa”) [union reports embargo breach] [declassified 2012]
81 May 16 Sa Major South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1522 to FCO (1655Z) (“Pik Botha’s Visit to Washington”) [declassified 2012]
81 Jun 7 Su Minor South Africa: FCO to UKE Salisbury (“Mr. Humphrey Berkeley”) [in danger of being abducted] [declassified 2012]
81 Jun 11 Th Major South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa: Elections”) [Leahy’s assessment] [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 12 We Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“Police Action against Illegal Black Residents”) [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 14 Fr Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“South African Government Action against Squatters”) [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 17 Mo Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town minute to FCO (“Squatters”) [legalisation announcement] [declassified 2012]
81 Sep 23 We Major South Africa: Prime Minister Botha letter to MT (Carrington’s speech at the UN) [declassified 2012]
81 Sep 24 Th Major South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Anglo-South African Relations”) [response to Botha’s letter] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 19 Mo Major South Africa: MT letter to Prime Minister Botha (Carrington’s speech at the UN) [“I cannot accept your description of the passage in question...”] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 12 Th Major South Africa: Amery letter to MT (situation in Southern Africa) [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 15 Su Major South Africa: ?FCO record of conversation (Julian Amery-Major General Kamal Hassan Ali) [Arab-Israel, Egyptian position, Horn of Africa] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 15 Su Major South Africa: ?FCO record of conversation (Julian Amery-President Mubarak) [Arab-Israel, Egyptian position, Horn of Africa] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 19 Th Major South Africa: Amery letter to MT (South Africa and the Middle East) [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 8 Tu Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“Call on Prime Minister”) [situation in South Africa, relations with the UK] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 13 We Major South Africa: UKMIS New York telegram 45 to FCO (2346Z) (“Message from Pik Botha to Perez de Cuellar on Apartheid”) [reaction to UN Secretary-General statement on South Africa] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 13 We Major South Africa: UKMIS New York telegram 44 to FCO (2345Z) (“South African Reactions to the new Secretary General”) [“Pik Botha has expoloded again”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 22 Fr Major South Africa: UKE Salisbury to FCO (“Prime Minister’s Statements on Nationalisation and One-Party State”) [declassified 2012]