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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1642
South Africa (Internal situation: relations with UK) (Part 5)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 358
Any docs withheld? 2
Themes: Foreign policy (Africa), Commonwealth (general), Commonwealth (South Africa), Race, immigration, nationality, Religion & morality

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Date Value Title
85 Aug 5 Mo Major South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (visit of EC ministers) [welcome on assumption no right to interfere implied] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 5 Mo Major South Africa: Sir Laurens van der Post letter to MT (his visit to South Africa) [offers to take message; No.10 wary] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 5 Mo Major South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa: Message from President Botha to the Prime Minister”) [Shultz letter to Howe opposing visit of European FMs to SA early this month] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 6 Tu Minor South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“South Africa: Situation Round-Up”) ["generally quiet weekend"] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 6 Tu Major South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2325 to FCO (0030Z) (“Message from President Botha to the Prime Minister”) [US says Botha to make major speech on 15 Aug, Pik Botha to brief in advance London, Washington & Bonn; US thinking movement on Mandela] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 6 Tu Major South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“South Africa Internal”) [National MP outlines government policy] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 6 Tu Major South Africa: Department of Trade and Industry minute for FCO (“UK Policy towards South Africa”) [Tebbit agrees further studies needed] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 7 We Major South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (his coming speech) [hopes for "a significant step forward for all the people of South Africa"] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 7 We Major South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Message to the Prime Minister from President Botha”) [debates whether MT should meet Pik Botha; draft message] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 9 Fr Major South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“South Africa: Situation Report on Unrest”) [Durban townships, government claims hooligan element] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 9 Fr Major South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa”) [Pik Botha trails President Botha’s speech in Durban 15 Aug; MT hopes for "a great advance"] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 9 Fr Major South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (Addison, Laurens van der Post) [what to say during his visit - rely on personal judgment following long talks with MT] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 13 Tu Major South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa”) [plans for response to President Botha’s speech in Durban 15 Aug] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 15 Th Major South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“President Botha’s Speech of 15 August”) ["not as positive as we had been led to believe it would be"] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 19 Mo Major South Africa: Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi letter to MT (apartheid) [case for "effective political and economic pressures"] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 23 Fr Major South Africa: UKHC New Delhi to FCO (“India: South Africa”) [Rajiv Gandhi feels so strongly on sanctions he is writing to MT] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 28 We Major South Africa: South African Embassy to No.10 (statement by SAG) [black communities at Kwangema and Driefontein will not be forced to move] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 28 We Major South Africa: Lord Rothschild letter to President Botha (Rothschild meeting with Worrall and de Kock) [Botha needs urgently to announce that he has decided to renounce apartheid] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 28 We Minor South Africa: South African Embassy in London letter to Powell (“KwaNgema and Driefontein”) [statement by the Deputy Minister of Development and Land Affairs] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 30 Fr Minor South Africa: FCO minute for Norgrove (“Lord Rothschild: South Africa”) [draft reply for MT] [declassified 2014]