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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1644
South Africa (Internal situation: relations with UK) (Part 7)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 351
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85 Sep 16 Mon South Africa: UKE Pretoria briefing to FCO (“Visit to Britain by Bishop Tutu”) [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 19 Thu South Africa: FCO press conference (“South African incursion into Angola on 16 September”) [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 23 Mon South Africa: FCO briefing for MT (“Call on Prime Minister by Bishop Tutu”) [Tutu’s attitude to violence] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 27 Fri South Africa: FCO press conference (“South Africa: Detentions”) [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 1 Tue South Africa: FCO minute to Cabinet Office (“MISC 118: future of South Africa”) [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 2 Wed South Africa: John Carlisle MP letter to MT (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [Gleneagles Agreement; request to MT to write article] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 2 Wed South Africa: PM Mulroney of Canada letter to MT (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 2 Wed South Africa: FCO briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Bishop Tutu, 3 October”) [sanctions, non-violent reform, dialogue] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 3 Thu South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (“South Africa: internal”) [reforms] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 3 Thu South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Bishop Tutu) [violence, apartheid, sanctions] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 4 Fri South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (internal reform) [defence of record] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 4 Fri South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (President Machel visit to London) [aid to Mozambique, sanctions against South Africa] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 7 Mon South Africa: President Nyerere letter to MT (“South Africa: economic sanctions”) [appeal for UK support] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 7 Mon South Africa: President Nyerere letter to MT (apartheid and sanctions) [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 8 Tue South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam telegram to FCO(“Letter from President Nyerere to the Prime Minister”) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 9 Wed South Africa: UKHC Nassau telegram to FCO (“South Africa and CHOGM”) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 9 Wed South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (sanctions and international aid) [Mozambique, Angola, the Nkomati Accord] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 10 Thu South Africa: MT letter to President Nyerere (sanctions against South Africa: British position) [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 10 Thu South Africa: MT letter to PM Pindling of the Bahamas (Comonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 10 Thu South Africa: MT letter to PM Lange of New Zealand (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]