1986 Mar 3 - 1986 May 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1966
South Africa (Internal situation; relations with UK) (Part 9)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2016 Feb 19 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 468 |
| Any docs withheld? | 7 |
PREM19/1966 - download whole file (PDF, 434.03 MB)
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Showing items 61 - 72 of 72
| Date |
Value |
Title |
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| 86 Mar 17 Mo | Major | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lord Barber) ["Prime Minister's meeting with Lord Barber": account of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group's visit to S. Africa/'possible negotiating concept'] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 14 Fr | Major | South Africa: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Lord Barber") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons visit to S. Africa & next steps] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 13 Th | Major | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [overview of Group's visit to S. Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 11 Tu | Major | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") [details of Group's 'negotiating concept' proposal; "would be helpful if the Prime Minister were to send another message to President Botha"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 10 Mo | Major | South Africa: Howe letter to Pik Botha (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) ["both the tenor and substance of your government's response to the Group this week is likely to have a significant influence on the future course of the Group's mission"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 7 Fr | Major | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Commonwealth Group") [Tessa Solesby record of conversation with Lord Barber; MT interested in report of Groups' 'negotiating concept' proposal to S. African government] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 6 Th | Major | South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Nicholas Elliott") [MT agrees to meeting to discuss his visit to S. Africa, Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons, and how to spend his inheritance] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 5 We | Major | South Africa: UKE Johannesburg telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Alexandra funerals") [report on the service & attendance; "an atmosphere of extreme tension... and it may well be that violence will break out later today"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 5 We | Major | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (lifting of the State of Emergency) ["I wanted you to know how warmly I welcome the important steps which you have just announced... we shall be working hard to persuade the Angolan Government to play its part"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 4 Tu | Major | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["South Africa": Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; Cuban withdrawal from Namibia; MT "dissatisfaction about the way in which the recent representations of the South African Government were handled"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 4 Tu | Major | South Africa: Pik Botha letter to Hans van den Broek (European Community Aide Memoire) ["Once again I appeal to European Governments to take a wider and more balanced view of what is happening in South and Southern Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 3 Mo | Major | South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Representations to the South African Government") [MT "thought that this matter had been handled most unsatisfactorily"] [declassified Feb 2016] |