1985 Nov 1 - 1986 Feb 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1965
South Africa (Internal situation; relations with UK) (Part 8)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2016 Feb 19 |
| Classification: | Top Secret |
| Page count: | 459 |
| Any docs withheld? | 7 |
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| Date | Value |
Title |
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| 85 Nov 17 Su | Major | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["dismayed... that your Government consider that it would be impossible to co-operate... The international pressures for sanctions... will fast gather momentum again"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 14 Sa | Major | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) [report on her meeting with the Group; "they particularly asked me to to urge you to let them visit South Africa in January"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 10 Mo | Major | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (opening address to Parliament) ["I see your speech as both constructive and courageous... The legislative measures which you announced represent concrete steps to implement change"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jan 8 We | Major | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (reform and negotiations) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group visit; Botha's forthcoming address to Parliament; South African govt strategy to address violent conflict] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Major | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; recent landmine explosions in Northern Transvaal] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 20 Fr | Major | South Africa: MT letter to Robert Mugabe (reform and negotiations) [visit to South Africa of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; ANC attacks close to Zimbabwe border - "frankly dismayed... hope that you will continue to use your influence to prevent such attacks"; Mozambique] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jan 22 We | Major | South Africa: MT letter to Robert Mugabe (South Africa) [corrects Mugabe's reading of her previous letter: "[we] accept that you do not allow or encourage ANC bases in Zimbabwe... Nor is there any question of my seeking to threaten Zimbabwe on behalf of South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 12 Th | Major | South Africa: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Eminent Persons Group") [lines to take on discussion of Group's diplomatic strategy; lines to take on discussion of Nigeria with General Obasanjo] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 22 Fr | Major | South Africa: No.10 briefing note for MT (meeting with Enos Mabuza) [concise character sketch; FCO briefing attached] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jan 20 Mo | Major | South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS (Derek Tonkin farewell letter from Pretoria) [MT "found it a very interesting and well-written account, if rather depressing in its conclusions"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 17 Tu | Major | South Africa: No.10 minute (internal): Cradock to Powell ("Land Mine attack in South Africa") [report & analysis] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 20 Fr | Major | South Africa: No.10 minute (internal): Cradock to Powell ("Possible South African raid into Lesotho") [report & analysis] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 3 Mo | Major | South Africa: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("South Africa: President Botha's Speech to Parliament") [MT "is concerned that our public line on this speech has been rather wan": proposed line to take if questioned in Parliament] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jan 9 Th | Major | South Africa: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("South Africa") [details of Reagan's newly-formed "South Africa Working Group" and of its proposal for twenty black College Presidents to visit S. Africa and to meet with MT in London on their way back] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Major | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) [reform in S. Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 5 We | Major | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Dr. Fritz Leutwiler) [South Africa's financial problems] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 25 Mo | Major | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Enos Mabuza) [strategy for initiating dialogue between S. African government & black representatives] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jan 22 We | Major | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Barber) [Nigerians insisting on meeting with Mandala as condition of joining visit to South Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 14 Th | Major | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Adley MP) [Adley advises that "The best way... of encouraging... dialogue... would be to talk to the ANC"; MT "appalled by the recent pronouncements of Mr Tambo"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 12 Tu | Major | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["Were it not for you admirable efforts, I would have had no hesitation in rejecting the Nassau initiative outright"; alternative proposal] [declassified Feb 2016] |