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PREM19/1967
South Africa (Internal situation; relations with UK) (Part 10)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Secret - UK Eyes A
Page count: 484
Any docs withheld? 14

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86 Jun 12 Thu South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Fraser, Obasanjo) ["Prime Minister's meeting with the co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group on South Africa": analysis of the Group's failure and assessment of South Africa's future; MT of the opinion that Mandela's release would be key to a breakthrough] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 12 Thu South Africa: Co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group letter to Shultz (further sanctions against South Africa) ["[our] report will be released today... we are not dealing with a government which wishes to negotiate"; the Group's view on necessary further measures] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 13 Fri South Africa: Powell minute for MT ("South Africa") [shown text of President Botha's television statement regarding the declaration of a state of emergency by Worrall; unhelpful; replied that MT attached "particular importance to the position of Mr Mandela"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 13 Fri South Africa: Howe minute to MT ("UK Policy towards South Africa") ["resist calls for comprehensive sanctions... new political mechanism to promote dialogue... badly needed to take the place of the Commonwealth Group.... consider... further personal message from you to President Botha... our aim... to settle on a suitable range of measures... We cannot afford to take long over this"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 14 Sat South Africa: No.10 record of conversation ("South Africa") [Charles Powell, Sonny Ramphal: notice of intention to meet with Presidents Kaunda & Gandhi regarding threatened withdrawal from Commonwealth; request for meeting with MT] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 15 Sun South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers) ["South Africa": Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on 16 June: "dramatic developments... [had] strengthened the case for agreeing some action at the European Council... something to be said for deciding one measure at least... tomorrow"; MT resistant] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 16 Mon South Africa: UKE Luxembourg record of conversation ("Foreign Affairs Council, Luxembourg, 16 June 1986. South Africa") [Howe, EC Foreign Ministers: sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 16 Mon South Africa: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Armed struggle in South Africa: Mugabe's speech") ["gave priority to armed struggle... [supported] sanctions... by the international community... even if it meant suffering"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 16 Mon South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("South Africa: Motion") [suggests draft amendment for Parliamentary debate on effective measures to oppose apartheid; Howe speech for Debate attached] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 16 Mon South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS (message to the Prime Minister from Prime Minister Gandhi) [seeks draft reply] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 16 Mon South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS (interception of arms and ammunition to the ANC) [details and handling of reply to South African government] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 16 Mon South Africa: Chair of CU Assurance letter to MT (South Africa: the British Business View) ["Thank you for your hospitality today... [I am] enclosing a draft of the statement which the British Industry Committee on South Africa will be putting to its members on Wednesday 18th" ] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 17 Tue South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("MISC 118") [assessment of the risk of South African goverment banning strategic mineral exports in retaliation for sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 17 Tue South Africa: No.10 note to Charles Powell (lobby led by Mr. Nubaduala to see the Prime Minister) ["Duty Clerk told them that she was unavailable"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 17 Tue South Africa: Powell briefing for MT ("Ministerial meeting: South Africa") ["We now need to decide how to apply... [our] policy in practice at the European Council on 26/27 June and in the run up to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting"; points to consider] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 18 Wed South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lawson, Tebbit, Wakeham, Alan Clark, Robert Armstrong, Percy Cradock) ["South Africa": sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 19 Thu South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1630 to FCO (2225Z) ("US/South Africa") [proceedings in Congress; "the chances of an Administration concession have probably in fact increased"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 19 Thu South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: the current mood") ["Government's emergency measures have so far proved broadly successful... in the long run... will solve nothing... seem determined to do their own thing and damn the consequences"; Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 19 Thu South Africa: Robert Jackson MP letter to No.10 (sanctions against South Africa) [text of his speech in Parliamentary debate] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 19 Thu South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Patrick Wall MP, John Biggs-Davison MP, Ian Lloyd MP, Julian Amery MP, George Gardiner MP, John Carlisle MP) [members of Conservative Back Bench Committee on South Africa: sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]