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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

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86 May 16 Fr Major South Africa: Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal letter to MT (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: meeting of seven Commonwealth Heads of Government for six-month progress review of the Group's work) [date, venue & other details] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 16 Fr Major South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Ramphal's views on international economic issues") [Howe "shares... [MT's] irritation... [but] we want to keep Ramphal on board at this critical stage"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 15 Th Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Speech by President Botha") [views of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group on the speech; analysis; suggested line to take] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 15 Th Major South Africa: South African Embassy letter to No.10 (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group and Speech by President Botha) [update on Group's meetings; transcript of speech] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 14 We Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Lord Barber: Group's meeting with Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 13 Tu Major South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("ComGEP visit to South Africa") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: Ramphal account of Group's meeting with Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 9 Fr Major South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Tokyo Summit: declaration on South Africa) ["major practical difficulties in the way of agreeing a statement... short reference to South Africa at the joint press conference... very pleased the the [Commonwealth Eminent Persons] Group has now decided to return to Southern Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 8 Th Major South Africa: FCO letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [civil service paper on "likely effects of political and economic developments in South Africa on the... [UK's] economic stake there"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 6 Tu Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Nelson Mandela") [report on meeting of "two members of the Opposition Progressive Federal Party... with Nelson Mandela"] [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 6 Tu Major South Africa: Co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons letter to MT (bilateral exchanges) ["planning to return to Cape Town next week... We are concerned about [news of] bilateral exchanges with the South African Government at this time"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 2 Fr Major South Africa: FCO telegram to UKE Seoul ("ComGEP Review Meeting") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: Governments' efforts to agree an early date] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 2 Fr Major South Africa: No.10 minute to Addison (internal) and Howe PS ("President Botha's Message") [relayed by airborne telegram en route to Tokyo Economic Summit: MT overrides Howe advice: request to revise instructions to Moberly - "too negative": still hopeful of securing a reference to South Africa in the Summit conclusions] [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]
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 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 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 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]