1980 Sep 8 - 1982 Oct 21
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/923
South Africa (Internal situation; relations with UK) (Part 2)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2012 Dec 28 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 212 |
| Any docs withheld? | No |
PREM19/923 - download whole file (PDF, 31.89 MB)
Selections from this file
| Date | Category |
Type |
Value | Author/Source | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80 Sep 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Nott letter to Carrington (Namibia) [resist likely calls for sanctions following unhelpful SA response to UNSG] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Sep 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Nott minute to MT (“South Africa”) [UN arms embargo & possible trade loss for the UK] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Sep 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“South Africa”) [arms embargo] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Sep 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO minute to Nott (“South Africa”) [UN sanctions, Namibia] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Sep 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Mr. Luce’s Visit to South Africa”) [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Sep 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKMIS New York to FCO (“South Africa: Arms Embargo Committee”) [French, US & African positions] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Sep 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKMIS New York to FCO (“South Africa: UN Arms Embargo Committee”) [Franco-US divisions] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Sep 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“South Africa and Sanctions - OD(80)53 & 54”) [possible British veto] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Sep 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Nott minute to MT (“South Africa: Proposed Extension of UN Arms Embargo”) [possible trade loss for UK] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Sep 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO to UKE Belgrade (“South African Arms Embargo”) [report of Muskie-Carrington meetingin New York] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Sep 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Wade-Gery minute to Whitmore (“Sanctions on South Africa”) [Nott’s at odds with Carrington] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Joseph minute to MT (“South Africa: Proposed Extension of UN Arms Embargo”) [opposes extension] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Walker minute to MT (UN sanctions against South Africa: economic implications for the UK) [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Oct 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria despatch to FCO (“South Africa: Where are we now?”) ["the key concept now is 'confederation'"] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Dec 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria despatch to FCO (“P W Botha’s Referendum: a Progress Report and the Coming Crunch”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jan 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UK Ambassador despatch for Carrington (“South Africa: Annual Review 1980”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jan 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“General Election”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 note for MT (Humprey Berkeley’s call from Johannesburg) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Visit by South African Defence Force Officers to Washington”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“General Election”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 minute to MOD (“Arms Embargo on South Africa”) [union reports embargo breach] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“South African General Election”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 May 16 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington to FCO (“Pik Botha’s Visit to Washington”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Oct 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO to UKE Pretoria (“South African Intelligence Activities in the UK”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Oct 2 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“South African Intelligence Activities in the UK”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Luanda to FCO (“SWAPO break-in”) [South West Africa People’s Organisation: break-in in their London offices] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO to UKE Luanda (“SWAPO break-in”) [guidance for answering any questions about the incident] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO to UKE Pretoria (“South African Intelligence Activities in the UK”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO to UKE Pretoria (“South African Intelligence Activity in the UK: Protest to the South African Ambassador”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO to UKE Peking (“South African Intelligence Activity in the UK: the Aspinall Case”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jul 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa-Swaziland Border Negotiations”) [briefing] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Archbishop Huddleston (death sentences in South Africa) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Archbishop Huddleston letter to MT (appeal for help: death sentences in South Africa) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Brittan letter to Cockfield (GEC sale of turbines to South Africa: Biffen’s proposal) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Kenneth Baker letter to Brittan (GEC sale of turbines to South Africa: Biffen’s proposal) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Biffen letter to Brittan (GEC sale of turbines to South Africa: interest rates) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“President Kaunda’s Call for a Meeting with Botha”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Salisbury to FCO (“Internal Politics: Whites”) [Mugabe statement] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Salisbury to FCO (“Prime Minister’s Statements on Nationalisation and One-Party State”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKMIS New York to FCO (“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 | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKMIS New York to FCO (“South African Reactions to the new Secretary General”) [“Pik Botha has expoloded again”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Dec 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“Call on Prime Minister”) [situation in South Africa, relations with the UK] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Amery letter to MT (South Africa and the Middle East) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 15 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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 | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: ?FCO record of conversation (Julian Amery-President Mubarak) [Arab-Israel, Egyptian position, Horn of Africa] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Amery letter to MT (situation in Southern Africa) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Sep 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Anglo-South African Relations”) [response to Botha’s letter] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Aug 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town minute to FCO (“Squatters”) [legalisation announcement] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Aug 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“South African Government Action against Squatters”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Aug 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“Police Action against Illegal Black Residents”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jun 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa: Elections”) [Leahy’s assessment] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jun 7 Su | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO to UKE Salisbury (“Mr. Humphrey Berkeley”) [in danger of being abducted] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Oct 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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 Sep 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Prime Minister Botha letter to MT (Carrington’s speech at the UN) [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Sep 21 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Pym) [South Africa and sanctions] [declassified 2012] |