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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1966
South Africa (Internal situation; relations with UK) (Part 9)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Secret
Page count: 468
Any docs withheld? 7

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86 Apr 6 Su Major South Africa: President Reagan letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["I am pleased to support your efforts and will write to State President Botha, as you suggest, to urge him to continue the dialogue with the.... Group"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 10 Th Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group: message from President Botha") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Pik Botha: "it was an assurance from the... [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons] rather than the ANC which the South African Government would be needing in regard to cessation of violence"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 10 Th Major South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group 'possible negotiating concept' and the cessation of violence) ["If... [we] could receive a definite assurance to the effect that violence would cease... [we] would be prepared to consider... the"possible negotiating concept" of the [CGEP]"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 11 Fr Major South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 916 to FCO (2320Z) ("US/South Africa") [PW Botha letters to MT & Reagan; Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons - Lord Barber meeting with Shultz; Tokyo Economic Summit/S. Africa; ComGEP - Fraser/Obasanjo meeting with Shultz ] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 14 Mo Major South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") [timing, venue and level of Group Review Meeting: Howe reluctant to delay beyond July; MT reluctant to be rushed at the expense of a worthwhile outcome] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 15 Tu Major South Africa: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa: CHOGM Accord - Krugerrands") [Howe in favour of legislative ban on imports; Channon's view "a legislative ban would be a clear breach of GATT" ] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 16 We Major South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Reply to President Botha") [draft reply: "have to make Botha feel that his efforts are appreciated... [but] bring home to him... that he must deal direct with the [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group]"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 18 Fr Major South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1004 to FCO (0430Z) ("US/South Africa: ComGEP") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: report on visit to US] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 18 Fr Major South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons' 'negotiating concept') ["worth making a serious effort... rising chorus of calls for economic sanctions... would encourage you to explore with the Group exactly what a suspension of violence would entail"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 21 Mo Major South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hawke) [Libya; New Zealand ship visits; South Africa; South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone; Australian Bicentennial] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 21 Mo Major South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Reform in South Africa") [Howe flags up speech by Principal of University of Cape Town; No.10 notes speech to "depict an ideal and academic outcome rather than a practical one"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 24 Th Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Ending of Pass Laws") [statement by Minister of Justice] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 24 Th Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Reactions to Government Reform Announcements") ["broad welcome from Whites to the Government's proposals for abolition of the pass laws and influx control. Blacks are generally sceptical"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 24 Th Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African reply to Commonwealth Group") [Moberly record of conversation with Pik Botha: "began to bridle at... [implication] that the Group might not find a great deal of movement on the Government's part towards the ideas in their negotiating concept"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 24 Th Major South Africa: Pik Botha letter to co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons (Commonwealth Group's 'possible negotiating concept') ["if the South African Government does move along the lines suggested... and violence continues or increases... the Government may have no alternative but to take appropriate measures to control the violence"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 25 Fr Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African reply to Commonwealth Group") [report on the thinking behind Pik Botha letter] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 28 Mo Major South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") [date of review conference; MT: "what really bothers me is that the EPG do not seem interested in getting the best results - only in forcing the pace"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Apr 29 Tu Major South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Tokyo Economic Summit: statement on South Africa) ["[a joint statement by] the Heads of Government... could provide momentum to current efforts to bring an end violence and facilitate negotiations"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 1 Th Major South Africa: Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons message to Pik Botha ("South Africa") [calling for "genuine negotiation along the lines envisaged in our negotiating concept"; forwarded to MT by Ramphal by telegram of 6 May] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 1 Th Major South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [Howe "greatly doubts... consensus at the [Tokyo Economic] Summit in favour of a statement on the lines proposed by [President Botha]"; advises MT to wait until after Summit to reply to Botha; draft instructions to Moberly] [declassified Feb 2016]