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PREM19/1970
South Africa (Internal situation; relations with UK) (Part 13)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Top Secret - Cab One
Page count: 289
Any docs withheld? 7

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86 Aug 27 Wed South Africa: Commonwealth Heads of Government letter to President Reagan (Nassau 'Accord on South Africa': conclusions of the Commonwealth Review Meeting) [summary & outline of further measures] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 29 Fri South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa internal: state of emergency 10 weeks on") ["relatively successful so far... dilemna of when to lift emergency unlikely to resolve itself... little success in changing black attitudes"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 1 Mon South Africa: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Chester Crocker) ["Shultz... ready to see Tambo"; Congress/Administration: respective positions on further sanctions; coal imports; arms embargo; funds to develop regional transport links in South Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 2 Tue South Africa: UKE Johannesburg telegram to FCO ("Chief Buthelezi's speech") [Buthelezi "ideas that the Government should make a distinction between Nelson Mandela... on the one hand, and the ANC... on the other... [and] should release Mandela... but not unban the ANC immediately"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 4 Thu South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2263 to FCO (1900Z) ("US/South Africa: sanctions") ["Uncertainty about next US steps persist... A Presidential initiative would still have to go a good way towards the substance and mood of the Senate bill if it were to make for a sustainable veto"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 5 Fri South Africa: No.10 note to MT (requests from South African visitors for meetings with MT) ["[Howe] hopes [they] will change your views. I really don't think you need see them"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 5 Fri South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("EC Foreign Ministers' informal weekend: South Africa") ["[Howe's] letter (attached) sets out how he proposes we handle the question of restrictive measures... we should go for rapid adoption of the Hague measures at the Foreign Affairs Council on 15/16 September"; key points from Charles Powell, Teltschik conversation on the subject] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 5 Fri South Africa: No.10 record of conversation ("EC Foreign Ministers' informal weekend: South Africa") [Charles Powell, Horst Teltschik: "Kohl... not yet ready to endorse formally further restrictive measures... crucial consideration... was close co-ordination with... [US] and Japan"; Howe visit to Washington] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 8 Mon South Africa: Prime Minister Charles letter to MT (action agaisnt apartheid) ["my views on apartheid... diametrically opposed to yours... better to have a short and very painful period [of sanctions]... than a long drawn-out... confrontation"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 12 Fri South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("South Africa") ["Kohl... will urge you strongly to get coal dropped from the EC sanctions... my own view is that you can't let Kohl down"; Reagan likely to veto Senate bill and seek to replace it more limited measures excluding coal import ban] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 13 Sat South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Foreign Affairs Council: 15/16 September: South Africa") ["you expected... [MT] to wish to be consulted... EC Foreign Ministers have] argued... we should implement at least those measures agreed in the Hague Communiqué... [Howe] intends to make clear... the UK's willingness to drop coal [imports ban, only] if others agree"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 14 Sun South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kohl) ["Foreign Affairs Council: 15/16 September: South Africa": joint US/UK/FRG resistance to punitive sanctions/ban on coal imports] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 15 Mon South Africa: MT letter to Prime Minister Dlamini (action to abolish apartheid) ["agree with you that general economic sanctions would not solve the problem"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 19 Fri South Africa: MT letter to Prime Minister Charles (action to abolish apartheid) ["I do not believe that sanctions are the answer"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 2 Thu South Africa: Howe minute to Channon ("Voluntary ban on new investment") ["We are bound, as Presidency, to allow our [EC] partners time to try to reach a common position... I would [however]... wish us to announce our measures in the next few days"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 3 Fri South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2519 to FCO (0015Z) ("US/South Africa") ["Senate overrides President's veto. Santions bill now US law"; details] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 4 Sat South Africa: President of Jei-Ai Publishing Co. Ltd letter to MT (sanctions against South Africa) [copy attached of the company's letter to Archbishop of Canterbury: case against sanctions, and proposed alternatives] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 10 Fri South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("South Africa") [MT not persuaded by Howe argument for writing to President Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 10 Fri South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: visit of NAM Foreign Ministers") [request to meet with MT or Howe - expected to plea for comprehensive sanctions; advice] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 17 Fri South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("South Africa") ["ideas... which he proposes to discuss with President Reagan. They seem to run well ahead of what is practicable"] [declassified Feb 2016]