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1986 Jul 1 - 1986 Jul 15
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1968
South Africa (Internal situation; relations with UK) (Part 11)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Top Secret - Cab One
Page count: 248
Any docs withheld? 9

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86 Jul 8 Tue South Africa: No.10 minute to MT (message from Lord Tonypandy) ["watching your Canadian tv interview on South Africa... 100% in support... happy to speak out if you wish"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 8 Tue South Africa: No.10 record of conversation ("South Africa") [Laurens van der Post, Charles Powell: addendum to van der Post's conversation with Howe] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 8 Tue South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chief Minister of Lebowa") [No.10 declines request for meeting] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 9 Wed South Africa: No.10 note to MT ("Foreign Secretary's mission to southern Africa") [update on progress] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 9 Wed South Africa: Prime Minister Nakasone message to MT (aboliton of apartheid: measures against South Africa) ["Japan will be prepared to study possible ways of participating in... concerted efforts"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 9 Wed South Africa: Howe PS minute to No.10 ("Commonwealth Secretary General's call on the Prime Minister") [lines to take] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 10 Thu South Africa: UKHC Lagos telegram to Howe PS (Secretary of State's visit to Africa: meeting with Nigerian Foreign Minister) ["would be happy to see you here in Lagos, however briefly"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 10 Thu South Africa: MT letter to President Diouf (Secretary of State's visit to Africa: meeting with Nigerian Foreign Minister) ["it is imperative that we should demonstrate our disapproval of the policies of the South African Government without causing them to react in such a way as to rule out dialogue and compromise"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 10 Thu South Africa: FCO record of conversation ("Secretary of State's meeting with Mr Mugabe") [Howe, Mugabe: Mugabe sceptical of British motives for opposing sanctions; Zimbabwe expenditure on transport links; relations with US] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 11 Fri South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("EC Presidency Mission") [Winnie Mandela quoted as saying Nelson Mandela not willing to meet with Howe] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 11 Fri South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's mission") ["I expect the Government will be expecting... Howe's arrival here sceptically coupled with... puzzlement as to what he may have to say to them"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 11 Fri South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's mission: press reactions") [summary & quotes] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 11 Fri South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's mission: press reactions") [PW Botha invitations to black representatives to discuss power sharing] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 11 Fri South Africa: UKE Harare telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth African reactions to British policy on South Africa") [Commonwealth Games boycott] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 11 Fri South Africa: No.10 note (internal) to Powell (European Council: message to Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal) [oversight] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 11 Fri South Africa: Cabinet Office to No.10 ("South Africa: internal disorders") ["quite likely to be extra trouble on 14 July"; details] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 11 Fri South Africa: Malcolm Fraser letter to MT (negotiations with the South African Government) [analysis of why the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons' negotiations failed & of necessary measures for successful negotiations; MT: "More to do with Malcolm than S. Africa!"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 11 Fri South Africa: FCO record of conversation ("Secretary of State's meeting with President Machel") [UK/Mozambique relations; negotiations with S. African govt] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 12 Sat South Africa: FCO telegram to UKHC Nairobi ("Commonwealth Games") ["surprised and concerned at this morning's... reports that the Kenyan Government has decided to pull out"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 13 Sun South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brian Mulroney) [partial record of conversation: sanctions against South Africa: "Mulroney said that it was clear that Canada and the... [UK] had a strong divergence of opinion... This was not a happy situation"] [declassified Feb 2016]