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1985 Oct 1 - 1985 Oct 31
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 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 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 31 Thu South Africa: No.10 Policy Unit press line for News Department (“Nomination of Lord Barber to the Eminent Persons Group”) [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 31 Thu South Africa: Lord Thomas record of conversations (apartheid, ANC resistance, sanctions; Strategic Defence Initiative) [Thomas, Oliver Tambo; Thomas, Howard Baker] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 30 Wed South Africa: Commonwealth Secretary-General letter to MT (nominations to the Group of Eminent Persons) [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 29 Tue South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [“CHOGM: Group of Eminent Persons” - Howe refusing to join, decision to approach Barber, failing which Howe’s nomination to be discussed again] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 28 Mon South Africa: UKHC Canberra telegram to FCO (“CHOGM: South Africa”) [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 26 Sat South Africa: Christopher Tugendhat letter to MT (nomination to the Eminent Persons’ Group) [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 25 Fri South Africa: Church Commissioners Secretary minute to Church Commissioners (“Investment and South Africa”) [copied to No.10 for interest] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 23 Wed South Africa: President Nyerere of Tanzania letter to MT (Inkatha’s commitment to non-violent reform) [condemns ANC and international media reporting] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 22 Tue South Africa: FCO telegram 521 to UKMIS New York (2100Z) (President Botha letter to MT) [sanctions and international aid] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 22 Tue South Africa: UKDEL Nassau telegram to UKHC Canberra (“Southern Africa: The Commonwealth Accord”) [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 21 Mon South Africa: FCO telegram to UKDEL Nassau (“South Africa: Commonwealth Accord”) [lines to take on Namibia and S. Africa for Lords and Commons debates] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 16 Wed South Africa: Brittan letter to Howe (“South Africa; EC Code of Conduct”) [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 7 Mon South Africa: President Nyerere letter to MT (apartheid and 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 Sep 19 Thu South Africa: FCO press conference (“South African incursion into Angola on 16 September”) [declassified 2014]