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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 Sep 5 Fr Major 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 Fr Major 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 Fr Major 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 4 Th Major 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 2 Tu Major 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 1 Mo Major 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 Aug 29 Fr Major 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 Aug 27 We Major 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 21 Th Major South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Bishop Tutu") ["enthronement... as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town... Stoffel Botha... not in a position to give an assurance that all [invited guests] would have no difficulty in obtaining visas... mounting Government irritation at Tutu's advocacy of sanctions... [but] if anyone is immune, it must be Tutu"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 20 We Major South Africa: Prime Minister Hawke message to MT (message to other European Community Heads of Government concerning the South African issue) [cover letter with text of message & No.10 reply attached; Hawke: "just as the Commonwealth has now moved to adopt further measures against South Africa so too... would it be appropriate for the... [EC] countries to do so"; detail of proposed further sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 19 Tu Major South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2129 to FCO (2000Z) ("Messages from President Botha") [Michael Jenkins, Chester Crocker record of conversation: discussion of draft reply form Reagan proposing possible meeting between US/South African officials] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 19 Tu Major South Africa: MT letter to Prime Minister Lange (South Africa: Commonwealth Heads of Government Review meeting) ["my impressions of that meeting and to tell you of the action which we in Britain will now be taking"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 18 Mo Major South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Resumed Parliamentary Session") [legislative programme] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 14 Th Major South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Tambo") [meeting with Howe; MT: "I doubt the wisdom of seeing him in London... No F.C.S has ever met the head of a terrorist organisation before - so I presume he is only seeing him as President of the E.E.C. Council of Ministers"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 13 We Major South Africa: Baroness Young PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: President Botha's speech") ["the defensive line our News Department will take today, about which we have consulted Geoffrey Howe"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 12 Tu Major South Africa: No.10 letter to Dr. James Barber (training and education of non-white South Africans) ["there is already substantial help on offer from Britain, and from other governments and organisations"; details] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 11 Mo Major South Africa: Baroness Young PS letter to No.10 ("Bermuda: anti-apartheid coalition petition") [forwarded to MT at request of Premier Swan] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 11 Mo Major South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (sanctions) ["outcome [of latest Commonwealth meeting]... represents a step backwards... The international community... insists on negotiations, yet its actions prevent the negotiations from proceeding"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 7 Th Major South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("US/South Africa: message from PW Botha") ["South African government... cannot see any way at present of avoiding a dialogue proving to be a slippery slope which would end in the ANC simply taking over power... seems unlikely that the [attached] letter to Reagan [proposing endorsement of basic principles] indicates any real flexibility"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Aug 6 We Major South Africa: MT letter to President Babangida (Commonwealth Heads of Government Review meeting) ["my impressions of the... meeting... and to tell you of the action which we in Britain will now be taking"] [declassified Feb 2016]