1985 Jul 1 - 1985 Aug 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1642
South Africa (Internal situation: relations with UK) (Part 5)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Confidential |
| Page count: | 358 |
| Any docs withheld? | 2 |
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| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Jul 12 Fr | Minor | South Africa: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell (“Joint Ten Statement on Southern Africa”) [proposed EC Code of Conduct] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 18 Th | Minor | South Africa: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell (“Seminar on Policy towards South Africa”) [business participants] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 31 We | Major | South Africa: FCO briefing for MT (“Prime Minister”s Meeting with Chief Mangosutho Buthelezi, 2 August 1985”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Aug 30 Fr | Minor | South Africa: FCO minute for Norgrove (“Lord Rothschild: South Africa”) [draft reply for MT] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Aug 30 Fr | Minor | South Africa: FCO minute for Powell (“Discussion Paper on Policy towards South Africa”) [cover note] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 8 Mo | Major | South Africa: FCO minute for Powell (“Joint Ten Statement on Southern Africa”) [draft text] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 24 We | Minor | South Africa: FCO minute for Powell (“Seminar on Policy towards Southern Africa”) [names for seminar] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 19 Fr | Major | South Africa: FCO minute for Powell (“UK Policy towards South Africa”) [Howe paper on growing pressures for sanctions & risk of retaliation against UK] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 19 Fr | Major | South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Joint Statement by the Ten on Southern Africa”) [MT agrees draft] [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 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 Jul 4 Th | Minor | South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Seminar on Policy towards South Africa”) [MT concerned too many invited] [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 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 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 Jul 2 Tu | Major | South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“UK Policy towards South Africa”) [Howe urges MT write to Botha warning against further raids, prepare measures] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 8 Mo | Major | South Africa: Fergusson minute for Reeve (“UK Policy towards South Africa”) [need to define "a reasonable pace of internal change, towards what goal"] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 10 We | Major | South Africa: Helen Suzman speech to the European Democratic Group (Western policy towards the South Africa and apartheid) [Powell: "Some cogent points against sanctions"] [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] |